Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ? |
| 2 | Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger . |
| 3 | I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever . |
| 4 | I was the same age as Mandy Smith , Bill Wyman 's ex-wife , when their affair started . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If theirs was the same college attended by Clare Mallender , that might be explained by Dysart recommending it to her at her father 's request . |
| 8 | ‘ My doctor , ’ he said , ‘ has told me that because we are both very depressive types of people , perhaps because we know what life is about that I should n't meet people who were the same way as I am and get depressed about things . ’ |
| 9 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 10 | But you were the same age , you might have known or heard things about her that adults would not know . ’ |
| 11 | She looked pudgier and more ordinary without make-up , and he was n't entirely sure she was the same girl . |
| 12 | She was the same size as me so I knew that her clothes would fit me . |
| 13 | She was wearing a black and white sharkskin dress that did n't make you wonder whether she was the same shape the whole way down . |
| 14 | It is highly likely that she was the same woman that Emma Southwick imagined was having a nip with Tiller in the back room during rehearsals way back in the St James 's Hall times . |
| 15 | This involved a teacher treating a pupil in a manner which suggested that he or she was the same sort of person as an older brother or sister who had either offended in some way or was being offered as a worthy model . |
| 16 | She was the same age as Amy — well , a year older , since her twenty-third birthday last month — and Amy 's life might already be over . |
| 17 | Although she called me ‘ boy ’ , she was the same age as me , but she seemed much older than me . |
| 18 | Since she was the same age as Julius , she had to be in her mid-thirties , but her skin was smooth and unlined . |
| 19 | Not just because she was the same age , but because she had such a dreadful illness , just when she should be enjoying life . |
| 20 | In spite of her bone-weariness , all of a sudden she was facing him squarely , for she was the same height and if anything , more strongly built . |
| 21 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 22 | Each visitor receives a ‘ passport ’ bearing the story of an actual victim or survivor who was the same age and gender as the visitor . |
| 23 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 24 | Ten years ago , I met an attractive woman who was the same age as my mother . |
| 25 | It was grown now , and a good bit taller than me , but when I was young and we were the same size it had been my static catapult defending the southerly approaches to the island . |
| 26 | We were the same age , but I was so much older than he . |
| 27 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 28 | Everything was the same colour — floor , walls , ceiling , door , the three cylindrical grain containers in the comer . |
| 29 | Bringing a copy of this picture to the instrument for comparison only served to show how right these first impressions were ( illus.2 ) : there were the same keys , the characteristically carved end-blocks , the lockboard batten and the nicely rounded crown on the spine adjacent , the colour of the veneer , the same stop knob in the same place — and leaning against this harpsichord the most revered of all ‘ English ’ composers , Handel himself ! |
| 30 | Certainly , when anaesthesia , for example , was first introduced , there were the same debates as there are now over the care of VLBW babies , about its experimental nature and the long- and short-term effects of using it . |