Example sentences of "been [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 2 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 3 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 4 | They 've both been through the same transmogrification . ’ |
| 5 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 6 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 7 | Erm Works , Q S , Business Manager , B E S have been through the same process as you 're going through today . |
| 8 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
| 10 | Of course he understood , having been through the same gruesome ordeal . |
| 11 | At the end she left I said do ring Cathy if you feel like it because I 'm sure she wo n't mind well it would be nice for us to find out who 's been through the same thing recently . |
| 12 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 13 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |
| 14 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 15 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 16 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 17 | Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice . |
| 18 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 19 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 20 | They have not been under the same review process as pension funds where every three years or so managers are changing . |
| 21 | When you 've been with the same bank since you were thirteen , you somehow feel they will grow up with you . |
| 22 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 23 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 24 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 25 | My clothes have always been in the same spirit as Madonna . |
| 26 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 27 | Many of the guesthouses and hotels we feature in this brochure , have been in the same family for years . |
| 28 | In the machine shop , without Victor Wilcox to escort her , Robyn was as conspicuous in her high-fashion boots , her cord breeches and her cream-coloured quilted jacket , as some rare animal , a white doe or a unicorn , would have been in the same place . |
| 29 | Amelia may not have been in the same league as the great adventurers who scale mountain peaks , cross oceans and the icy wastes of the Antarctic and Arctic or shoot the white water rapids of unnavigable rivers , but she was a real traveller , ranked among those who actually get up and go , sacrificing security and facing the cold disdain of their bank managers . |
| 30 | If you are working fewer than 15 hours a week , you also have very few employment rights , until you have been in the same job for at least 5 years , working at least 8 hours a week . |