Example sentences of "[been] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 2 | Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye . |
| 3 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 4 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 5 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 6 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 7 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 8 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 11 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 12 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 13 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 14 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 15 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 16 | Cadfael had already been considering the same question , and could only conclude that the abbot had indeed total faith that the Gospels would justify Shrewsbury in possession of its saint . |
| 17 | Whilst they are very good at what they do , they 've also been riding the same horse for a very long time and the old nag 's starting to show signs of wear . |
| 18 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 19 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 20 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 22 | CCEM , which was also created to maintain and operate the government 's communication networks , has also been providing the same services to private customers . |
| 23 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 24 | Had he been doing the same job when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 25 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 26 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 27 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 28 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |
| 29 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 30 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |