Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] the same " in BNC.

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1 Shagalyn Jadambaa ( Defence ) , and Tserenpilyn Gombosuren ( Foreign Relations ) had all held the same or similar posts in the outgoing Cabinet ; Dalrain Davaasambuu ( Finance ) , Namsraijavyn Luvsabjav ( Justice ) and Tsevenjavyn Oold ( Food and Agriculture ) were among new appointments .
2 Arthur had obviously had the same idea .
3 I knew that Brian had already made the same decision , but , unlike the other two , he had no need to talk about it .
4 It sounded as though he had already said the same thing to a great many others .
5 Three years earlier , on the conclusion of an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty , it had already voted the same man a gold chain and a medal worth another 6,000 .
6 Mr Lamont forecasts that the economy will be growing at the rate of three per cent per year in 12 months ' time ; he would have carried more conviction , if he had not made the same ‘ jam tomorrow ’ forecast a year ago .
7 Speaking after a meeting with EC Finance Ministers in Luxembourg he envisaged that a smaller number of countries with low inflation ( France , West Germany , Belgium , Netherlands and Luxembourg ) would enter a European central banking system and that others who had not reached the same degree of economic convergence , or were not ready to give up sufficient sovereignty rights , would be invited to enter later .
8 Because of poor management the Polytechnic had not had the same ‘ close and supportive relationship with the authority that the College of Education had enjoyed ’ .
9 France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them .
10 Masklin had just asked the same question .
11 But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven .
12 He had always felt the same elation at the end of his long tours abroad .
13 Grandma Smith had always looked the same — grey hair straggling — pinafored and old
14 On that occasion he had been treated with a degree of courtesy not far short of deference and he had subconsciously expected the same of his interview with Chief Inspector Golding .
15 Allan Lamb had probably seen the same selector : he hit sixty for Northants , their top scorer .
16 Vicky pointed out that we had deposited our own jewellery in the safe in our room and that other guests had probably done the same .
17 The searchers had probably done the same as , from where Melissa was standing , only the middle and the far side of the river bed were visible .
18 From the middle of the sixteenth century there had , however , been some confusion in England , mainly because most continental countries had adopted 1 January as the beginning of their year , and had also assumed the same year number .
19 Jewish and Muslim mystics had also made the same radical claim .
20 Not only had Margrida assumed that Simon was her boyfriend , but Celeste had clearly thought the same yesterday — and just now a hearty , middle-aged Dalgety executive had stopped her to say how fortunate their new driver was to have such a pretty and successful young lady as his amor .
21 For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed .
22 Rose had often thought the same .
23 Coffin had often thought the same himself .
24 She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself .
25 Marsden explained that hospital social workers had negotiated their role in discharge in the 1970s , when the Freeman Hospital had been built — ‘ discharges do n't happen without social services input ’ — and had then spread the same working practices to Newcastle 's other two acute hospitals .
26 Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately .
27 The Court of Appeal had earlier said the same in Potger ( 1970 ) 55 Cr App R 42 .
28 The Greek Orthodox Church had earlier reached the same conclusion .
29 Walter Hallstein , the West German representative at Messina and the first President of the EEC Commission , had earlier stressed the same point : ‘ We are not integrating economies , we are integrating politics .
30 He replied that on the facts as stated the testator had validly confirmed his wishes by a trust , and had therefore given the same to each so that the nurses should enjoy the income from the land together with the foster-child .
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