Example sentences of "was the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same expression he 'd had when backing away from the struggle around the campfire just before Osvaldo — his beard still smouldering — had put him under arrest . |
| 2 | He wondered if it was the same rope but did not like to ask his mother . |
| 3 | Sure enough , Lewis Luther , or whoever , turned up in full Airborne rig — I was pretty sure it was the same bike and I made a note of its number this time — and they did the business as they had at Holborn . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , it was the same reliance on that market that also killed it , as BMC realised it could n't economically meet the new US emissions and safety requirements of the late '60s . |
| 5 | It was the same nightmare , Duncan wrapped within the swirling crashing helicopter , flames reaching out to burn him . |
| 6 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 7 | ‘ Pray tell Dr Heatherton that I called , ’ he said , but all the reply he received was the same cold , formal bow the daughter had made . |
| 8 | It was the same banner that flew over the columns of marching men converging on the Women ‘ s Battalion guarding the Provisional Government in St Petersburg … the same banner that was raised in front of the crowds surging into George Square in Glasgow . |
| 9 | and then Brenda ran up to explain breathlessly that she did n't think the van would go under the low bridge , as her daddy 's — which was the same size — would n't . |
| 10 | She was the same size as me so I knew that her clothes would fit me . |
| 11 | The increase in the real cost of mortgage interest tax relief over the period — £2.4 billion at 1986/7 prices — was the same size as the real fall in net public capital spending on housing . |
| 12 | The robbers had certainly had a boy with them , they said , but whether this boy was the same boy … well , it seemed very doubtful . |
| 13 | This was the same proportion as for all households . |
| 14 | The final irony , it was the same Chief Inspector who had signed both the letters he received . |
| 15 | But I would buy it if it was the same price as ordinary meat . |
| 16 | Krauss notes that even in Rodin 's Three Nymphs , it was the same plaster model that was realized for each of the three figures . |
| 17 | It was the same look . |
| 18 | It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it . |
| 19 | As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead . |
| 20 | ‘ No — I remember , it was Taylor , because it was the same day you came in , and I remember thinking it was a coincidence . |
| 21 | He died in nineteen hundred and ten and that was the same day |
| 22 | Yes , it was the same man . |
| 23 | It was the same man who built Sovovy mill in neo-Gothic style . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There was no doubt whatever in George 's mind that this was the same man . |
| 26 | Back in his own home , it seemed incredible to George that he had actually seen Tamar 's attacker at Thorsbury , and yet he was certain that the groom was the same man . |
| 27 | She paused before continuing , ‘ You are sure it was the same man ? , |
| 28 | And … and it was the same man who … who took off my cap that . |
| 29 | It was the same man . |
| 30 | It was difficult to believe that the Birdman ( I never did learn his name ) was the same man I had watched earlier in the day catching puffins on the cliffs beyond the village . |