Example sentences of "[art] same thing " in BNC.

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1 Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia .
2 In his words the global corporation ‘ sells the same things in the same way everywhere ’ .
3 This too is a technique pioneered by Neighbours , where it works best at the beginning and end of each episode , and in the poignant identification of the tragedy of Paul and Gail , who do and say the same things day after day , but wear different clothes .
4 Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage .
5 ‘ At first I was upset by this development , ’ said one official , ‘ but then I realised that with so many places selling the same things either they would go bust or they would have to channel their efforts into other , more necessary things . ’
6 While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things .
7 Berkeley 's making of ideas into things needs to do justice to the thought that we all ( including God , for Berkeley ) perceive the same things .
8 ‘ Do n't you still want the same things ?
9 It goes north again , to the town of Ekron , but the same things happen there .
10 A diet that involves uncommon foods or drinks , or the same things repeated over and over again , is not a basis for long-term success .
11 Although there is considerable value in the notion that Paisley 's political movement always consisted of two elements in tension — rural evangelicals and urban ‘ secular ’ Protestants — it is also the case that many evangelicals could be quite pragmatic and recognize that the preservation of things which they valued because of their religious beliefs required them to work in alliance with others who wanted the same things for different reasons .
12 Shame and penance are not the same things .
13 She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace .
14 In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things .
15 The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things .
16 They laughed at the same things .
17 The pagan philosophers have introduced cycles of time in which the same things are in the order of nature being restored and repeated , and have asserted that these whirlings of past and future ages will go on unceasingly … .
18 But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way .
19 ‘ Oh , my ma and pa said exactly the same things to me when I was a kid , but I took no notice of it . ’
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21 Interestingly there is inevitably more coherence in the primary child 's day because one or two adults experience the same things — indeed they are the conductors of the total experience which is planned for a day in detail within the week and the year .
22 ‘ I used to see and feel things in the house , but being a child I just took it for granted that everybody else was seeing and feeling the same things .
23 Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres .
24 It makes so much difference if you tell each other what you hope for , rather than expecting your partner to know , or to assume that your partner wants and expects the same things .
25 We 'll meet here , on the same day , in two years ' time , at seven o'clock , and we 'll have exactly the same things to eat , and tell each other quite frankly in what ways we 've changed .
26 120° of this visual field is binocular — we see the same things with both eyes .
27 But self-confidence in the sense of psychological certitude is not the same things as absolute certainty in the philosophical sense .
28 One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’
29 Everyone has the same equipment , and they can all do the same things : walk , talk , play music , and so on .
30 But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision .
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