Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [be] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | My reasons are the same as those given by the Court of Appeal . |
| 2 | ‘ My tactics are the same as last season — I 'm trying to finish every race but I 'm not holding back from victory . |
| 3 | My husband was the same ; really squeamish about nappies and such . |
| 4 | Do n't worry about it — many of my paintings are the same ! |
| 5 | You see , then , then my argument is the same , well , why give the Hockey Club five hundred pounds , and the Play Group only two fifty ? |
| 6 | I know , because my life was the same . |
| 7 | ‘ My answer 's the same as yours . |
| 8 | My day-dream is the same ; we should meet : |
| 9 | ‘ They just assumed my house was the same as the rest around here — big and worth a lot of money . |
| 10 | And I was n't the only one I think all my family was the same . |
| 11 | Their skin is the same age . |
| 12 | And , I talked to other publishers erm , including a very large one which will be nameless and they have a pretty good spread and their experience was the same as ours . |
| 13 | Her hair was the same bright copper glow , and yet , below it , her face had collapsed in heavy folds , like cloth . |
| 14 | She peered anxiously into her six-foot-wide dressing-table mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last auburn tint , and found to her satisfaction that all her hair was the same improbable shade . |
| 15 | A pub like the Nag 's Head in Bishops Stortford , by E B Musman in 1935 , is in the modernist style of the London Underground , with curved ends and flat roofs , yet its ethos is the same rather high-mindedness of the earlier neo-Georgian style , with a wooden post on the roadside to carry the signboard . |
| 16 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 17 | The flame that sparkled in its heart was the same fire that had flared between them since the beginning . |
| 18 | This circle self-inverts ; that is , its inverse is the same circle . |
| 19 | finally they allow us to situate the different thresholds in their respective place : for nothing proves in advance … that their chronology is the same for all types of discourse … |
| 20 | As the centre of the latter is only a half hour 's walk away , many of its attractions are the same ( and for these please see entry for Topp 's Hotel ) . |
| 21 | Thus , its effect is the same in relation to a clause claiming to exempt the supplier from liability under the terms relating to description , quality or sample . |
| 22 | You 're not alone in your embarrassment — most of your friends will know exactly what you 're going through , having been through it themselves when their kids were the same age . |
| 23 | Brown and Levinson ( 1978 ) , who have studied politeness phenomena in widely diverse languages and cultures , suggest that their origin is the same in all societies . |
| 24 | Her laugh is the same as Crilly 's . |
| 25 | While these two strata took different paths , one working from within the tsarist regime and the other confronting it , their aim was the same : both sought forceful economic modernization of backward Russia , and both aspired to monopolize power over the distribution of wealth in the new society . |
| 26 | She read it carefully twice , but her conclusion was the same both times . |
| 27 | She trailed off dismally , knowing that Monica was not capable of flinging up a window in an empty house and climbing in to have a look , and that , very likely , her husband was the same . |
| 28 | It was better written than Cooper 's and , thankfully , in typescript , but its theme was the same : a passionate denial of having played any part in the , Luton murder at all . |
| 29 | They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result . |
| 30 | Although the telephone has become commonplace in most of our homes , and is essential to business , its principles are the same today as they were when Alexander Graham Bell invented it in 1876 . |