Example sentences of "he was the same " in BNC.

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1 She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon .
2 She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box .
3 But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral .
4 I had no doubt he was the same age as me — his round face was not particularly lined — but he had the hairline of a ninety-year-old .
5 He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before .
6 But he was the same as ever — just went in and did it in one take .
7 To them he was the same rough dog , running into the room with wet paws to be disparaged .
8 He was the same age as old Jack Ryan and well remembered the smell of the pigs he brought with him into the pub of an evening .
9 But as his mother observed , he was the same Peter , he 'd pick himself up somehow .
10 Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized .
11 She said he was the same at home , only wanted to play with toys and watch TV , he would n't do any ‘ work ’ .
12 He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own .
13 Everybody knew the blind fiddler and he had always his kilt on and But after a while , I do n't know , the next time he came round I mind he had trousers on and we did n't think he was the same man at all , no .
14 Every morning and night he was the same , until finally the wedding day came .
15 Marks had grown greyer , more hairy , more stringy in the years-since their last meeting but he was the same man , shrewd , cynical , and a cop to the bone .
16 He was the same kind of man , too .
17 It is not unlikely that he was the same man as Barates the Palmyrene whose wife Regina was buried at South Shields ; a Catuvellaunian by birth , she was at first his slave before he freed and married her .
18 If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him .
19 Over the phone he was the same old Dad .
20 In front of everyone else he was the same as always and it was like those nights were a bad dream .
21 He was the same Michael , but grown up , and just as engaging and delightful to work with as when he was a kid . ’
22 I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head .
23 She helped to produce a sketch of her assailant and as a result of its publication , another woman told police that he was the same man who had attacked her the day before .
24 And Bill that was here he was the same .
25 He 's a year younger than Thomas but he was the same height
26 It 's got so that he was the same with Joan ,
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