Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are and I I think the whole trouble with Jenny was that not having , I mean , I was alright as a sort of mum subject I was n't the same as a bona fide mum that could be called upon in all weathers , at all times , to do everything |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just the same at your age . |
| 4 | I , I was , I was just the same . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " She was exactly the same as she is now , but she took the trouble to hide the fact . |
| 8 | I 've got five sisters ; she was n't the same with them . |
| 9 | She was n't the same Juliet Avery who had cycled to the hospital yesterday morning , blithe and carefree . |
| 10 | She was n't the same . |
| 11 | But she was not the same as them , she could not pretend to be . |
| 12 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 13 | His instincts told him she was still the same mad tomboy he had known before the war . |
| 14 | To him , she was still the same Alyssia , and heaven only knew why he had slept with her . |
| 15 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 16 | She was always the same . |
| 17 | ‘ She was always the same . |
| 18 | Broke your mother 's heart they tell me , she was never the same after . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | and these were called summat else but they was exactly the same . |
| 21 | Well it was practically the same as he did at district was n't |
| 22 | It was nearly the same as writing a letter home from school . |
| 23 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 24 | But it was n't the same when they went to school . |
| 25 | It was n't the same story but it was a story about seals . |
| 26 | Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more . |
| 27 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 28 | ‘ That bloody bike , ’ she said , although she knew it was n't the same one . |
| 29 | It was n't the same voice . |
| 30 | With Molly gone , it was n't the same . |