Example sentences of "was [verb] the same [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Since all they were achieving , by these repeated farewells , was to inflict the same wounds over and over . |
| 3 | To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each . |
| 4 | Up front Tony was asking the same questions . |
| 5 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 6 | Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed . |
| 7 | While much of the competition charged more for ‘ new skills ’ , for example in distributed computing , MMT 's policy , he said , was to charge the same rates for all types of expertise . |
| 8 | Once more , he was telling the same jokes before a show went on the air or was finally taped . |