Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] the same " in BNC.

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1 In a rare act of editorial humility , the paper acknowledged that it had made the same mistake itself .
2 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 .
3 In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened .
4 The Leader of the Opposition simply pointed out in an article that he wrote just before the party conference that the proportion of gross domestic product — national income — devoted to education since 1979 had dropped , and that if it had remained the same , the difference would be the figure to which the hon. Gentleman has referred .
5 Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning .
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