Example sentences of "he [be] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders .
2 She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon .
3 A John Warre is found in the 1650s , buying up sequestrated Royalist estates , but there is no evidence that he is the same man .
4 The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character .
5 I also feel very sorry for him : he is the same age as me and I would hate to be put under the pressure that was evident in his shaking frame after his statement .
6 Honestly , Henry , when I think back to when I first saw Andrew Jones in that mucky room , the thin weed of a lad with nothing about him , I can not believe he 's the same person represented by Mr Andrew Jones , not only head of the showrooms , but …
7 He 's erm three no he 's the same age as her baby next door I think .
8 I went to this man today and he 's a real doddery old soul and he 's the same age as gran
9 and he 's the same age as granddad , I could n't believe it and he was saying about well I 'm seventy one this year actually younger than my dad and he looks really old and we were
10 He was the same kind of man , too .
11 He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before .
12 Everybody knew the blind fiddler and he had always his kilt on and But after a while , I do n't know , the next time he came round I mind he had trousers on and we did n't think he was the same man at all , no .
13 Marks had grown greyer , more hairy , more stringy in the years-since their last meeting but he was the same man , shrewd , cynical , and a cop to the bone .
14 It is not unlikely that he was the same man as Barates the Palmyrene whose wife Regina was buried at South Shields ; a Catuvellaunian by birth , she was at first his slave before he freed and married her .
15 If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him .
16 She helped to produce a sketch of her assailant and as a result of its publication , another woman told police that he was the same man who had attacked her the day before .
17 Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized .
18 He 's a year younger than Thomas but he was the same height
19 I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head .
20 I had no doubt he was the same age as me — his round face was not particularly lined — but he had the hairline of a ninety-year-old .
21 He was the same age as old Jack Ryan and well remembered the smell of the pigs he brought with him into the pub of an evening .
22 He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own .
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