Example sentences of "[verb] [be] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 2 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 3 | ‘ Pray tell Dr Heatherton that I called , ’ he said , but all the reply he received was the same cold , formal bow the daughter had made . |
| 4 | Urgently needed is the same kind of attention paid to the literature of the western country that has one of the most resilient Africanist populations in the world — a population that has always had a curiously intimate and unhingingly separate existence within the dominant one . |
| 5 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 6 | Will I always have been the same sex ? |
| 7 | I mean that does have a lot of resonance for all of us. feel that erm I could have been the same person erm with lots of different changes to my body . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't have been the same girl then . ’ |
| 9 | And if she 'd married Vincent Van Gogh it would have been the same story . |
| 10 | But in fact it would not have been the same mistake . |
| 11 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |
| 12 | They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is no shading on the rock here , but it is used on two out of three tiny , marvellous cups from Athens ( figs. 113 , 114 ) made by a potter Sotades and painted by the ‘ Sotades Painter ’ who may well have been the same man . |
| 15 | Nothing is known for certain about his parentage and birth , but David Fallows has suggested that he may have been the same man as John Boddenham , born in Oxford in 1422 , chorister and scholar of Winchester College and later scholar and fellow of New College , Oxford . |
| 16 | But dad Craig said : ‘ It must have been the same bug . ’ |
| 17 | This may have been the same object as that lent by Gaston I to Clement V. The pope agreed to keep the talisman safely and to excommuni-cate anyone else who attempted to use it . |
| 18 | Must have been the same time I did my leg in . |
| 19 | Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas . |
| 20 | Clearly , the answer was ‘ No ’ , and one suspects it would have been the same answer whatever the political flavour of the government in office at the time . |
| 21 | ( Critics assume that the other man involved is the same man to whom Sonnets 1–126 have been addressed ; and some also assume that the three people involved in this series ( 133 , 134 , 135 , 143 , 144 ) are the same three involved in the earlier series ( 41 , 42 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the men involved was the same man who asked Anthony to contact MI5 in London when he was on holiday in Mallorca earlier this summer . ’ |
| 23 | Now the areas that I 've identified are the same ones as I put on the board last week . |
| 24 | The lower earnings limit is the same level as the basic retirement pension . |
| 25 | In our judgment the plaintiffs are entitled , if so advised , to object to the remuneration on the ground that it is , to use the judge 's words , ‘ plainly excessive ’ or , as we think is the same criterion , unreasonably high . |
| 26 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 27 | It had been the same sum for years . |
| 28 | Perhaps the only thing that Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath shared was the same Rada voice coach . |
| 29 | If Tommy Carr played for say Carlow , or perhaps Sligo or maybe Fermanagh , would there have been the same fuss ? |
| 30 | If you find the same language in distant countries , you may be sure that the inhabitants have been the same people , that is to say , if you find the languages a good deal the same ; for a word here and there being the same will not do . ’ |