Example sentences of "been [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 2 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 3 | Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye . |
| 4 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 5 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 6 | But it seems unlikely that it is often so , and it would be a mistake to extrapolate to other cases of mental illness which have been given the same diagnostic labels . |
| 7 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 8 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 9 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 10 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 11 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 12 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 13 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 14 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 15 | Er this is quite commonly accepted as er in use in many places and I think my our colleagues on the other side of the table have been using the same basic modelling methodology . |
| 16 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 17 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 18 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 19 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've just been told the same . |
| 21 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 22 | Cadfael had already been considering the same question , and could only conclude that the abbot had indeed total faith that the Gospels would justify Shrewsbury in possession of its saint . |
| 23 | Whilst they are very good at what they do , they 've also been riding the same horse for a very long time and the old nag 's starting to show signs of wear . |
| 24 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 25 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 26 | Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 27 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 28 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 30 | CCEM , which was also created to maintain and operate the government 's communication networks , has also been providing the same services to private customers . |