Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both rooms had received the same brutal searching treatment . |
| 2 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 3 | Romaine ( 1978b ) has cited the case in Edinburgh of two locally born upper-middle-class speakers who had attended the same private school but spoke with quite different accents . |
| 4 | READING Barrie Clement 's diatribe ( 6 October ) under the heading ‘ Union law policy remains unclear ’ , I wondered if he had attended the same Labour Party Conference as I did . |
| 5 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 6 | On the other hand : she 'd fortunately made the right career choice and been encouraged by school and family at an early age , got a qualification ( chartered accountancy ) that proved a useful passport , and had had the same supportive bosses any man would expect to get . |
| 7 | It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction . |
| 8 | Enhanced , too , by the knowledge that this story of the legions had reached the same evolutionary culmination not once but twice . |
| 9 | A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material . |
| 10 | Even in its golden age as a theatre , its morning aspect had imparted the same momentary shock of disillusionment — as a tousled , unpowdered woman to her lover of the night before . |
| 11 | Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second . |