Example sentences of "been [prep] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course he understood , having been through the same gruesome ordeal . |
| 2 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |
| 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 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 7 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |