Example sentences of "[noun] was the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had he robbed that particular S&L just three days earlier , but the teller at the window was the same person who had handed him the cash at gunpoint . |
| 2 | Bobby Gould was the same sort of striker . |
| 3 | The robbers had certainly had a boy with them , they said , but whether this boy was the same boy … well , it seemed very doubtful . |
| 4 | The Daily Mirror did not even pretend that its Scottish edition was the same paper and sold it as the Daily Record . |
| 5 | Harry could not at first believe that the tall and graceful youth beside Ockleton in the picture was the same man he had met at Tyler 's Hard . |
| 6 | The PA was the same system The Eurythmics used at Wembley and offered clarity and balance . |
| 7 | In the last mentioned case the delivery order transferred by the buyers to the sub-purchaser was the same document as that which has been transferred to the buyers by the sellers . |
| 8 | The dining area was the same canopy beneath which they had been interviewed earlier in the day , only now the matting was covered with carpets , some of them very fine , and an inverted ‘ U ’ of low square tables of some dark wood had been set out . |
| 9 | We have got good medical facilities , but as you just heard Samantha just saying , they 're destroying that as well , the only people who wanted water meters , is when houses were on ratable value and they were paying two hundred thousand pound for a house at large rates and the water rates was the same house . |
| 10 | The Red Queen role was the same part she had to pull out of 18 months ago because of ill health . |
| 11 | I wondered if Leila was the same sort of woman as the other two . ’ |
| 12 | Their younger daughter was the same age as Suzannah and went to and went to the same national school . |
| 13 | His companion was the same man grown older and turned to stone . |
| 14 | For Jane 's mother , and for everyone else who knew her , it was difficult to appreciate that this traumatised golfer was the same person as the one to whom , in amateur days , everything had come so easily . |
| 15 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 16 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 17 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 18 | Julian Hayman was the same age as Quinn and they had known each other when Quinn lived in London and worked for the underwriting firm specializing in protection and hostage release . |
| 19 | The natural plaster was exactly the same colour as the pink in the brick , while the yellow in the brick was the same colour as the Rayburn , so it all started to pull together . |
| 20 | The flame that sparkled in its heart was the same fire that had flared between them since the beginning . |
| 21 | Ghost was the same mind was n't it ? |
| 22 | The wallpaper was the same pale-green and the carpet beige , thick , respectable . |
| 23 | Back in his own home , it seemed incredible to George that he had actually seen Tamar 's attacker at Thorsbury , and yet he was certain that the groom was the same man . |
| 24 | His face was the same colour as that of the King when the royal cohort arrived from the palace . |
| 25 | One woman , Helen Edwards , said she was horrified to discover that James was the same age as her son Mark . |
| 26 | One of the letters in the practical was the same weight as one in the written test . |