Example sentences of "had been [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 2 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 3 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 4 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 5 | There had been sporadic contact even before the 1850s treaties , and subsequent relations had been on the same unequal basis as those with the other powers . |
| 6 | Carey and Zeno had been on the same side once . |
| 7 | If they had been on the same side of the bed , he would have struck her . |
| 8 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 9 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 10 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 11 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 12 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 13 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 14 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 15 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 16 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 17 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 18 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 19 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 20 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 21 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 22 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 23 | They came from young and old , from friends and strangers , from church groups , and from families in Cleveland and Rochdale who had been in the same position themselves . |
| 24 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |
| 25 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 26 | The name unlocked Peter 's memory : Coleby , a farmer 's son , had been in the same year as Peter at Plumford Grammar School . |
| 27 | Although the two firms are still expected to cement an agreement covering Hewlett-Packard taking a 20% stake in Taligent Inc , the Common Operating System Interface announcement is now likely to be toned down , with the participation of other firms that had been in the same swim , such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc , looking increasingly unlikely by the day . |
| 28 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 29 | He conferred with the Anglican Bishop ( who had been in the same Japanese POW camp as he ) ; and spent hours with a crowd of young Rhodesians , black and white , who are now in action with us . |
| 30 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |