Example sentences of "[pron] were the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ? |
| 2 | Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger . |
| 3 | I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever . |
| 4 | ‘ My doctor , ’ he said , ‘ has told me that because we are both very depressive types of people , perhaps because we know what life is about that I should n't meet people who were the same way as I am and get depressed about things . ’ |
| 5 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 6 | But you were the same age , you might have known or heard things about her that adults would not know . ’ |
| 7 | It was grown now , and a good bit taller than me , but when I was young and we were the same size it had been my static catapult defending the southerly approaches to the island . |
| 8 | We were the same age , but I was so much older than he . |
| 9 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 10 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 11 | If she spoke , if once there were the least word , the least crack or fissure , upon which tears and screams could follow , she would have lost her one advantage , her source of ordinary viable life , and would be utterly undone and destroyed . |
| 12 | . And er we were truthful , we tried to put our side of the argument , you know there were the few people who said , well I do n't really care , and drove in . |
| 13 | Bringing a copy of this picture to the instrument for comparison only served to show how right these first impressions were ( illus.2 ) : there were the same keys , the characteristically carved end-blocks , the lockboard batten and the nicely rounded crown on the spine adjacent , the colour of the veneer , the same stop knob in the same place — and leaning against this harpsichord the most revered of all ‘ English ’ composers , Handel himself ! |
| 14 | Certainly , when anaesthesia , for example , was first introduced , there were the same debates as there are now over the care of VLBW babies , about its experimental nature and the long- and short-term effects of using it . |
| 15 | There were the same satisfactions of seeing a job well-finished and the same frustrations when the machines refused to function . |
| 16 | There were the same farm houses and the same people on bicycles moving along the roads . |
| 17 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 18 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 19 | In this case , I am going to assume that there were only girls on the island , and also that they were the same ages and from the same middle-class English background as the boys . |
| 20 | Here one would think , and perhaps often , they were the same man ( see also below , pp. 64ff . ) . |
| 21 | But I looked today in erm cash and carry sport and they were the same price . |
| 22 | Mind I saw them in tt they were the same price in erm You Ca n't Go Wrong and tt the place opposite Woolworths in Caerphilly |
| 23 | but she said that they were the same price |
| 24 | They were the same price as the other ones the ones . |
| 25 | They were the same type — the off-the-peg evil mastermind — but Kruger was too much a part of this screwy Dream to host a real mind . |
| 26 | Sometimes I would have a gull and a crow but , whether they were the same species or not , they quickly found out they could n't fly properly — though the twine was long enough in theory — and ended up ( after a few hilariously clumsy aerobatics ) fighting . |
| 27 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 28 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 29 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
| 30 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |