Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [art] same " in BNC.
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1 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
2 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
3 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
4 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
5 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
6 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
7 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |