Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 2 | ‘ I was just the same at your age . |
| 3 | I , I was , I was just the same . |
| 4 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |
| 5 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |
| 6 | " She was exactly the same as she is now , but she took the trouble to hide the fact . |
| 7 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 8 | His instincts told him she was still the same mad tomboy he had known before the war . |
| 9 | To him , she was still the same Alyssia , and heaven only knew why he had slept with her . |
| 10 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 11 | She was always the same . |
| 12 | ‘ She was always the same . |
| 13 | Broke your mother 's heart they tell me , she was never the same after . ’ |
| 14 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 15 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 16 | I understand that this was pretty common , quite common throughout British Railways , it took a few years to knit together you know , the nationalization and the fact that we were just the same railway after that . |
| 17 | We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’ |
| 18 | She still did not have much use for him personally ; he , too , was twenty-one , they were exactly the same age take a week or so , and very sure of himself , too sure , even for her taste . |
| 19 | The sunlight from an open window shone into his eyes , and she noticed that they were exactly the same shade of green as Stephen 's , and just as opaque . |
| 20 | The problems … had grown tremendously in scale ; but they were fundamentally the same . |
| 21 | Then she leant forward — they were almost the same height — and caressed his cheek with her lips . |
| 22 | Even if the black hole did emit the right kinds of particles , one could not tell if they were actually the same particles that had gone down the other hole . |
| 23 | Well , they were much the same , local workers . |
| 24 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
| 25 | ‘ They were never the same again , ’ Moran said . |
| 26 | and these were called summat else but they was exactly the same . |
| 27 | ‘ An ’ it were just the same then . |
| 28 | Er er it were just the same on a motorcycle the faster he 'll go the better they 'd like it ! |
| 29 | He were never the same when he came off mainline . |
| 30 | Well it was practically the same as he did at district was n't |