Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 Because Joe and I were in the same position of being scolded by Mrs Joe , we were good friends , and Joe protected me from her anger whenever he could .
2 At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) .
3 I shouted thanks and crossed over , though I was on the same side as every local runner .
4 I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies .
5 ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’
6 I was on the same delegation to Russia and the Ukraine .
7 Yeah but I was , I was on the same place as I was one behind him !
8 They put a lot of effort into it , but I tell you what , if I read Access , I would never have believed I was at the same conference .
9 Thank you Chair , as the chair of that meeting yesterday , I was wondering if I was at the same committee as this m these minutes came from , because when I read the minutes two and three , I certainly did n't remember us passing those .
10 I was in the same Mental and Moral Science class as him and I ca n't say I noticed .
11 When I was in the same area again last week ( w/c July 5 '91 ) I went up to the shelters one evening and cleaned out all the rubbish prior to spending the night there .
12 I felt them , if I was in the same position , I would probably drink heavily as well .
13 And when I came round I was in the same place .
14 ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’
15 He was so thick that I was in the same form as Dan .
16 About 15,000 feet presumably someone called ‘ Tally Ho ! ’ because I suddenly saw three Ju88s , which were at the same height , slightly to my left , range about 1,000 yards , and heading away from Malta .
17 Problems arise when we come to consider the smaller centres , such as Arkhanes ; could they have had territories which were on the same footing as those of the major temple-centres ?
18 Three people ( GF , MM , and MS ) lived in houses which were on the same site as other residential facilities ( called ‘ campus ’ houses in the remainder of this paper ) .
19 Only lot 10 failed to sell , probably due to its similarity to the two previous lots which were from the same series , and its slightly poorer condition .
20 From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme .
21 Not only were nearly three-fifths of the people here unable to scrape together sufficient personal property to reach the tax threshold of £2 , but none got the alternative of 20s. wages in the year , as did many in the Midland and southern counties who were in the same position .
22 And she too has a ‘ sporting background ’ in that she is one of about 500 people at the last count who were in the same class in the Primate Dixon PS in Coalisland as snooker superstar Denis Taylor !
23 ( c.26 ) " Since the kingdom consists of different regions , officers of the first , second , and indeed any rank should so far as possible be picked from different regions , so that [ men from ] the various regions should be able to come to the palace with a greater sense of knowing their way around ( familiarius ) since they would know that men who were from the same kin-group ( genealogia ) or the same region held a place there . "
24 You were on the same thing all day all day long .
25 Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee .
26 You could not be in the room next to mine , but you were in the same city , coming towards me , turning the corner of the square , entering the same street !
27 ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’
28 Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified .
29 She might as well try Veronica 's house again , although she was disturbed to find that she was on the same track as hordes of newspaper reporters .
30 ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’
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