Example sentences of "[vb past] had [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one .
2 I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all .
3 Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice .
4 Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book .
5 It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety .
6 They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times .
7 ‘ It seemed as if quite a lot of people had had the same dream — or a similar one , at least — there were similar elements in all of them .
8 ( To be frank , Alistair had had the same fantasy the previous Friday , at which time , presumably , Offensive from Quasar 13 was still being booted round the floor of the sub post office ) .
9 Others had had the same idea .
10 I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason .
11 Defries had had the same idea .
12 ‘ Well , ’ said Sendei , ‘ it looked like just about everybody else had had the same idea .
13 As she did so , Caspar turned with her , and Fenella knew he had had the same idea .
14 Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey .
15 In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said .
16 Perhaps he had had the same thought , because as their eyes met something seemed to pass between them , some spark of longing they both recognised .
17 Nearly all of us had had the same sort of education and shared a common social background .
18 Even earlier , in 1751 , he had had the same theme in mind when he began On the Immensity of the Supreme Being :
19 I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for .
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