Example sentences of "had [verb] the same [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress . |
| 2 | ‘ But , darling , suppose I had done the same when I was expecting you ? |
| 3 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 4 | News that standards had stayed the same or actually fell in several instances is pretty alarming , especially the apparent deterioration in reading skills among less able pupils . |
| 5 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |