Example sentences of "he [was/were] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But he was the same as ever — just went in and did it in one take . |
| 5 | To them he was the same rough dog , running into the room with wet paws to be disparaged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But as his mother observed , he was the same Peter , he 'd pick himself up somehow . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She said he was the same at home , only wanted to play with toys and watch TV , he would n't do any ‘ work ’ . |
| 10 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Every morning and night he was the same , until finally the wedding day came . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was the same kind of man , too . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Over the phone he was the same old Dad . |
| 18 | In front of everyone else he was the same as always and it was like those nights were a bad dream . |
| 19 | He was the same Michael , but grown up , and just as engaging and delightful to work with as when he was a kid . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And Bill that was here he was the same . |
| 23 | He 's a year younger than Thomas but he was the same height |
| 24 | It 's got so that he was the same with Joan , |