Example sentences of "was [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Endill was given the same suitcase his father and grandfather had taken with them to school .
2 I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized .
3 The Beveridge report was to breathe the same spirit of optimism and confidence that long-standing problems could be tackled .
4 Of his playing partners , Greg Norman was fined the same amount , but Ken Brown , who had been punished the day before , had to fork out £100 for a second offence .
5 The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed .
6 It was reported the same day that the UN military commander in Somalia , Brig. -Gen .
7 Kemp was discharged the same day , but Raynsford — the more seriously injured — was kept in by doctors until Monday .
8 On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle .
9 Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] .
10 I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them .
11 At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality .
12 Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s .
13 Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s .
14 Since all they were achieving , by these repeated farewells , was to inflict the same wounds over and over .
15 Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line .
16 To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each .
17 Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else .
18 She had already had one of her hips replaced and the other one was going the same way .
19 For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father .
20 She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer .
21 But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then .
22 And I was born the same day .
23 She was born the same day in 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell launched his first telephone company and became a teacher when just 13 .
24 On Feb. 18 the North suspended the fourth round of Premiers ' talks which had been scheduled for Feb. 25-28 , but agreement was reached the same month on joint sports teams [ see p. 38010 ; see also pp. 38341 ; 38437 ; 38529 ; 38576 ] .
25 ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’
26 He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience .
27 He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig .
28 Your first title was indented the same amount as your first title .
29 Now this woman , a complete stranger , was saying the same thing because she was with Nathan .
30 Now he was saying the same thing .
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