Example sentences of "[pers pn] were the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ? |
| 2 | Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger . |
| 3 | I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But you were the same age , you might have known or heard things about her that adults would not know . ’ |
| 6 | It was grown now , and a good bit taller than me , but when I was young and we were the same size it had been my static catapult defending the southerly approaches to the island . |
| 7 | We were the same age , but I was so much older than he . |
| 8 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 9 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 10 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 11 | In this case , I am going to assume that there were only girls on the island , and also that they were the same ages and from the same middle-class English background as the boys . |
| 12 | Here one would think , and perhaps often , they were the same man ( see also below , pp. 64ff . ) . |
| 13 | But I looked today in erm cash and carry sport and they were the same price . |
| 14 | Mind I saw them in tt they were the same price in erm You Ca n't Go Wrong and tt the place opposite Woolworths in Caerphilly |
| 15 | but she said that they were the same price |
| 16 | They were the same price as the other ones the ones . |
| 17 | They were the same type — the off-the-peg evil mastermind — but Kruger was too much a part of this screwy Dream to host a real mind . |
| 18 | Sometimes I would have a gull and a crow but , whether they were the same species or not , they quickly found out they could n't fly properly — though the twine was long enough in theory — and ended up ( after a few hilariously clumsy aerobatics ) fighting . |
| 19 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 20 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 21 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
| 22 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |
| 23 | But they were the same family the same Same people all through the years . |
| 24 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 25 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 26 | They were the same height , almost exactly . |
| 27 | Preston looked at him and wondered if they were the same nightmares he had . |
| 28 | Although the smooths looked nothing like their skinhead predecessors , they were the same kids extending the fashion . |
| 29 | Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence . |
| 30 | Although they were the same age , they thought the Russells Hall pupils would be much bigger than them . |