Example sentences of "was [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 2 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 3 | The second period was much the same story , Ron Barteling and Robert Nerckenrath making it 5-0 in four minutes . |
| 4 | It was much the same story at the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | My opponent was much the same height , build and temperament ; we stood toe to toe and swapped blow for blow . |
| 6 | He was much the same height as Hotspur , and much the same build , though twenty years at least older , and a century more crafty , and there was always the curious suggestion about him that he was ready and waiting to fit himself into the void if ever Hotspur slipped out of being . |
| 7 | It was much the same situation as with the ship attack . |
| 8 | He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young . |
| 9 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
| 10 | The girl was approximately the same age as the rector , must have weighed thirteen stone , and was dressed in a rather tight flowered overall . |
| 11 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 12 | What Hope had to bear was exactly the same kind of pressure as other blacks of his generation . |
| 13 | The natural plaster was exactly the same colour as the pink in the brick , while the yellow in the brick was the same colour as the Rayburn , so it all started to pull together . |
| 14 | Nor was it a fluke , as the bass player in the band , not to be outdone , bought a Fender Precision from Selmer 's a week later that was exactly the same colour . |
| 15 | The process that was followed in preparing the , which was exactly the same process as being followed in previous years . |
| 16 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 17 | The car was exactly the same model as his mother 's . |
| 18 | Her blue eyes were a shade or two deeper than those of her daughter , but her fair hair was exactly the same shade as Carrie 's . |
| 19 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 20 | And yet in many respects it was just the same kind of Christmas that she and her family had always known back home in Scotland . |
| 21 | It was just the same thing all over again , except that this time it took twice as long because of the interpreter . |
| 22 | Madame was our constant ; against the fact that she never changed her style or her outfit ( it was always the same dress , every night ) you could measure the changes in all the other faces and bodies that you spent the night scrutinising — faces subtly altered by a recent bitterness or passion , a body sagging under the pressure of losing a partner or made alert by the proximity of a new or potential one . |
| 23 | It was always the same shape and size , built , it seemed , solely for the transportation of cheese rolls . |
| 24 | It was always the same story so I said ter meself , ‘ Billy , ’ I said , ‘ yer wastin' yer time even bovverin' ter fink about it . |
| 25 | At least it was recognisably the same track and the same inn I came to . |
| 26 | Hell was being without God , I thought , but I said nothing , just stared instead at the white wash of cabin light on the rushing water , and I wondered why some people could take cocaine and just walk away from it , while others ended up in hell , or in a peep-show which was probably the same thing . |
| 27 | It was also the same day and night and throughout the year , even though the earth was rotating on its axis and orbiting around the sun . |
| 28 | With about 20,000 inhabitants , it was roughly the same size as these two English towns , and was just as provincial and bourgeois in character , but its people really knew how to live . |
| 29 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 30 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |