Example sentences of "have [vb pp] the same [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 2 | But basically , my thing has stayed the same because I 've got really used to it , although it 's not even all that efficient . |
| 3 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 4 | The flat fee , which has remained the same since the company was set up over three years ago , has proved to be a winner with both buyers and sellers . |
| 5 | As usual I just wished I 'd ordered the same as her : a bowl of smoked bacon and Roquefort cheese salad with garlic croutons . |
| 6 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |
| 7 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 8 | But it was hypocritical sarcasm because she knew she would have done the same as him . |
| 9 | I 've only been on since I read that thing in the square ball , and I suppose loads must have done the same as me and jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 10 | Well he is worried about them having an accident with it but , but he 's not er worried about him having the motorbike , no he cos he would have done the same as a er child anyway well things like that , but erm what he 's worried about is that er with Ryan i and the other boy , n not Ryan so much , the other boy does it all the time , they 're churning all the grass up all over there in great big |
| 11 | My mother always kept letters in their envelopes and a lot of other people must have done the same or the stamp business generally would have been the poorer . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’ |
| 13 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
| 14 | That 's right and he , we would have done the same if we 'd have found six men in there , er they all would have been secured until such time as I was happy that the the flat was clear . |
| 15 | You would have done the same if you 'd known . ’ |
| 16 | The stimuli may have remained the same but almost all other aspects of the training situation were radically altered in the shift from the simultaneous to the successive procedure . |
| 17 | When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress . |
| 18 | ‘ But , darling , suppose I had done the same when I was expecting you ? |
| 19 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 20 | I know s I 've chatted to some other people and they 've said the same so you 're not alone . |
| 21 | I 've stayed the same as I was before but now it 's all right to be what I was before . |
| 22 | News that standards had stayed the same or actually fell in several instances is pretty alarming , especially the apparent deterioration in reading skills among less able pupils . |
| 23 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 24 | Unless , that is , two groups happen to tell each other and it turns out that both have had the same or similar experiences . |
| 25 | Nor is broadening the curriculum in the sense I have suggested the same as ‘ infantilizing ’ it , making it ‘ soft ’ rather than ‘ hard ’ . |