Example sentences of "be in the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | ‘ The whole thing might not have ever got off the ground if Maxi Priest had n't been in the same room as them when I called up . |
| 34 | Little John Tomlins should have been in the same room . |
| 35 | I could have been in the same room with the murderer back at Livingstone Manor . |
| 36 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 37 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 38 | She groaned and turned over , hoping she would fall asleep again , but her brain insisted on relaying pictures of her twin , so vividly that Dana could have been in the same room . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Lorraine and Kim and Megan have n't been in the same house together since Kim was married . ’ |
| 41 | Amelia may not have been in the same league as the great adventurers who scale mountain peaks , cross oceans and the icy wastes of the Antarctic and Arctic or shoot the white water rapids of unnavigable rivers , but she was a real traveller , ranked among those who actually get up and go , sacrificing security and facing the cold disdain of their bank managers . |
| 42 | If you are working fewer than 15 hours a week , you also have very few employment rights , until you have been in the same job for at least 5 years , working at least 8 hours a week . |
| 43 | In the machine shop , without Victor Wilcox to escort her , Robyn was as conspicuous in her high-fashion boots , her cord breeches and her cream-coloured quilted jacket , as some rare animal , a white doe or a unicorn , would have been in the same place . |
| 44 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 45 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 46 | Has been in the same bank all the time . |
| 47 | We 've never been in the same class or anything , but we saw quite a lot of each other in the Christmas concert last year and then , well , it sort of started with that . " |
| 48 | " We 've been in the same class since the First Year . |
| 49 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 50 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 51 | Many of the guesthouses and hotels we feature in this brochure , have been in the same family for years . |
| 52 | A marvellous opportunity to visit a forge that has been in the same family for five generations to see a working blacksmith . |
| 53 | Just five minutes walk from the centre of Bavaria 's leading resort , this first-class hotel has been in the same family for more than 300 years . |
| 54 | A country pub that 's been in the same family for more than a hundred years is about to be sold off . |
| 55 | ‘ But without doubt he was the greatest player I have been in the same side with and he helped me improve myself no end . |
| 56 | If your cash has been in the same account for some time , make sure it has n't been closed to new customers . |
| 57 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 58 | Analyses of the distributions of individual stars in the bulge have all shown an asymmetry consistent with the bar found in the infrared continuum and all are in the same sense as indicated by the analysis of the balloon photometry ; the figure of the bar emerges clearly through the dusty murk of the galactic plane . |
| 59 | In sections 6.2 and 6.3 it was established that time-dependent potential differences across the secondary and primary windings of a unity-coupled , lossless transformer are in the same ratio as the turns ratio between these windings . |
| 60 | Since J is measured along the horizontal axis and W along the vertical axis , the only points on the graph at which J = W must lie along the 45° line from the origin ( assuming , of course , that both axes are in the same scale ) . |