Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 2 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 3 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 4 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 5 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 6 | The tin bath was half-filled with hot water into which had been poured the same perfumed green oil that Smallfry always added to her bath . |
| 7 | Blacks would have been better off now if , after being shipped to America in chains , they had been allowed the same freedom to prosper as willing immigrants were . |
| 8 | If BP boss Sir Peter Walters had been paid the same proportion of sales he would have received a salary of £8.1billion . |
| 9 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 10 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |