Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 2 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 3 | He loved being in the same film as James Mason . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 5 | because Youth and Carniki I knew are in the same building , which is why we wanted to see you |
| 6 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 7 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 8 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 9 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 10 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 11 | There had been sporadic contact even before the 1850s treaties , and subsequent relations had been on the same unequal basis as those with the other powers . |
| 12 | Carey and Zeno had been on the same side once . |
| 13 | If they had been on the same side of the bed , he would have struck her . |
| 14 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 15 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 16 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 17 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 18 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 19 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 20 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 21 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 22 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 23 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 24 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 25 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 26 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 27 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 28 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 29 | They came from young and old , from friends and strangers , from church groups , and from families in Cleveland and Rochdale who had been in the same position themselves . |
| 30 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |