Example sentences of "spoke [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amis nudged along his suburban ensemble with typically unhurried assurance , but he did n't seem to notice or care that each character spoke the same jocular bloke-in-the-pub idiom : long , broken-backed sentences that thrive on small qualifications . |
| 2 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 3 | In the century since 1066 England and Normandy had become two parts of a single political society , linked rather than separated by the Channel , the main road of the Anglo-Norman realm Men and women crossed easily from one side to the other ; many wealthy families held lands in both England and Normandy ; and even though sharp-red language snobs were soon able to mock French " spoken after the manner of Marlborough " , people at the upper levels of society in fact spoke the same language , Norman French , on both sides . |
| 4 | The Mitry peasants ( like the proverbial cat ) could look at a king , and they spoke the same legal language of customary rights and fairness as Charles and his faithful men used in their capitularies . |
| 5 | Because they all spoke the same language of fidelity , of joint interests and common belief , the great assembly could bring men together with their royal lord psychologically as well as physically . |
| 6 | The men in them were mercenaries , maybe Swedish : at any rate , they spoke the same language , you could see . |
| 7 | However , he did not allow her to become too swamped with nervous , trembling uncertainty , as he began to talk calmly and reasonably about his brother 's future life in America , describing some of the amusing mistakes he himself had made in assuming that the English and the Americans spoke the same language — when , in fact , so many words had different meanings . |