Example sentences of "were [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour . |
| 2 | We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’ |
| 3 | It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own . |
| 4 | My idea of a nature reserve and what I was actually looking at were not the same thing at all . |
| 5 | These Selmer/Adams Fenders were exactly the same colour as the Watkins Rapiers which Derek also sprayed . |
| 6 | The sunlight from an open window shone into his eyes , and she noticed that they were exactly the same shade of green as Stephen 's , and just as opaque . |
| 7 | She still did not have much use for him personally ; he , too , was twenty-one , they were exactly the same age take a week or so , and very sure of himself , too sure , even for her taste . |
| 8 | And erm I suppose it would make it would be a lot more logical if all the blinds were just the same price all the time . |
| 9 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 10 | I understand that this was pretty common , quite common throughout British Railways , it took a few years to knit together you know , the nationalization and the fact that we were just the same railway after that . |
| 11 | In East Punjab these were usually the same man , almost invariably a Brahmin by caste . |
| 12 | The 55% who indicated they would have liked to increase their farm skills were often the same farm wives who tackled emergencies on their own . |
| 13 | At this period umbrellas and sunshades , later known as parasols , were often the same thing . |
| 14 | And we are left with the problem of deciding whether or not the two Elizabeths baptised on 17 October were really the same girl . |
| 15 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 16 | Then she leant forward — they were almost the same height — and caressed his cheek with her lips . |