Example sentences of "[be] born [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always know about you , because we are born under the same star . ’ |
| 2 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 3 | We discovered a strange fortuity : her mother and my father had been born in the same town of Dumfries and , moreover , we had a marriage connection — her cousin had married my cousin 's cousin ! |
| 4 | Particularly if you were born on the same day as this other girl in the hospital . ’ |
| 5 | We were born on the same day , in the same place . |
| 6 | We were born on the same council estate — Shiregreen , in Sheffield , both ‘ well off ’ by council house standards first with a telly and matching frocks and knickers ) . |
| 7 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 8 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 9 | She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded . |
| 10 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |
| 11 | The two men were born in the same region , the Transkei , but whereas Mr Mandela was a distinguished personage of royal blood , Mr Sisulu came from an impoverished peasant family and engaged in politics as a consequence of his exposure to the daily indignities of life for blacks through his work in a dairy , a bakery , in mines and factories . |
| 12 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
| 13 | The same advantage can be taken of star clusters like the Pleiades and the Hyades : their component stars were born from the same gas clouds and must therefore be at the same distance from us . |
| 14 | My cousin , who is pregnant , was born on the same day as Arthur 's , who is the father . |
| 15 | He was born on the same day as Sarah but he 's an hour earlier . |
| 16 | Jacqueline de Romilly , Professor of Greek Literature at the Sorbonne , in her Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in 1967 on ‘ Time in Greek Tragedy ’ , has argued that it was no coincidence that Greek tragedy was born at the same time as historiography . |
| 17 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ He was born in the same town as me , ’ he says . |