Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [art] same " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 we 've been the same before when we started .
3 Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well .
4 They had three hundred and seventy three live children between them and on average they should of had twenty seven children with birth defects if they 'd been the same as the rest of the population , the non-criminal , non-prison erm erm erm non-prison population .
5 It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter .
6 Would it have been the same if it had been collected by anyone else ?
7 It had been the same sum for years .
8 It had been the same after their school days .
9 It had been the same over the Christmas decorations .
10 It had been the same for him and Nellie when James , their eldest son , was killed in France .
11 It had been the same every day since the storm .
12 It had been the same at the airport and I had thought then that perhaps he half expected Iris Sunderby to materialise out of the crowd .
13 It had been the same at school , when Davies had shoved him against the wall to see what he would do .
14 The polished wood floor , the scattered rugs , the furniture , it looked as if it had been the same for years , yet Kate could see the newness of the sofas , the curtains .
15 It had been the same with Road Works Ahead on the Long Drive .
16 It had been the same at university .
17 He 's been a wonderful husband in every way … it 's been the same all … our married life . ’
18 The music has n't changed ; it 's been the same for the past few millennia .
19 My wife and I waited over an hour for our meal last night and it 's been the same throughout our stay . ’
20 The board bent over backwards to help me raise funds for players and it 's been the same for Nigel Best .
21 But it 's been the same all season — we 've asked too much of too few . ’
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