Example sentences of "was about [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 2 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 3 | A recent Brooks auction had the asking price for an immaculate Ferrari 400GT at just £16,000 , an as-new E-Type Jaguar roadster was about the same price , and a fixed-head E-Type in showroom condition was less than £10,000 . |
| 4 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 5 | Luckily , that was about the same time that my mother and father bought me a radio , and all my other interests just disappeared once I had that … |
| 6 | He was about the same height as his wife but he looked stooped now , and he was wearing a dressing-gown ; normally he was the epitome of tweedy country-squiredom , an archetypal laird in three-piece suit , clumpy shoes , checked shirt and cap ; he resorted to a beaten-up , much reproofed Barbour when the weather turned particularly foul . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |
| 8 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |
| 9 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |
| 10 | The hijacker was about the same age as him , but not so big . |
| 11 | Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing . |
| 12 | So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ? |