Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
| 2 | Two promoters had obtained the same A G ( all mutations are indicated for the upper strand ) substitution at position -65 , two promoters had obtained an A G substitution at -72 , three promoters had obtained double mutations : A G at -65 together with C T at -1 , A G at -65 with C T at +4 and A G at -65 together with A G at -33 . |
| 3 | Both rooms had received the same brutal searching treatment . |
| 4 | Enhanced , too , by the knowledge that this story of the legions had reached the same evolutionary culmination not once but twice . |
| 5 | He told his fellow prisoners of an attack on a colonial settlement where the creatures had made the same noises just before they raided and massacred the colonists . |
| 6 | According to reliable sources , but unknown to Jack , at least three other signalmen had experienced the same chain of events , but all had kept their frightening experiences to themselves to avoid the ridicule of their workmates . |
| 7 | Most of the new members had held the same portfolios in the Council of Ministers , including Marshal Dmitry Yazov as Defence Minister , Sergei Lushchikov as Justice Minister , and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov as chair of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 8 | The implication , whether private or public , was that somehow pressure had been exerted by the masters to get the women to sign ( we have already noted that counter-allegations were made that the men had done the same to their women supporters ) . |
| 9 | News that standards had stayed the same or actually fell in several instances is pretty alarming , especially the apparent deterioration in reading skills among less able pupils . |
| 10 | Others had had the same idea . |
| 11 | Others had tried the same demolition job when Ian Hislop took over at Private Eye , but the continued involvement of icons Ingrams and Cook helped him survive . |
| 12 | My soldiers had inherited the same genes from the present queen as those old soldiers had inherited from the ancestral queens . |
| 13 | Every piece of their household effects had been sold to buy bread , and in many cases the tiles of the roofs had shared the same fate … |
| 14 | Doubtless many of his victims had believed the same . |
| 15 | On this question all social grades had taken the same line — the need to seize local gentry estates . |