Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to explain to those you love why you want to go on doing the same thing … the easy thing is to avoid looking at reality , to run away from it . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Nutty , having just thought the same thing changed her mind instantly . |
| 4 | I keep on thinking the same thing . |
| 5 | Everyone in the stand went home saying the same thing — I 'd have got that one . |
| 6 | But more important , once the semantics of the two constructions is examined , the hypothesis of meaningless variants must be ruled out once and for all : the two constructions do not mean the same thing . |
| 7 | But perhaps you do not see the same thing as I do . |
| 8 | There is a very important sense in which they do not see the same thing , and it is this latter sense upon which my criticism of the inductivist position has been based . |
| 9 | Putting these sentences into a broader situation reveals that they do not presuppose the same thing and that , in spite of Jespersen 's claim that the infinitive event is represented as occurring before the existence of the gladness , exactly the opposite is the case in the way the speaker represents the situation . |
| 10 | It sounded as though he had already said the same thing to a great many others . |
| 11 | These creditors will be determined not to let the same thing happen to Pan Am . |
| 12 | Naturally the poem does not mean the same thing for him as for Bilbo . |
| 13 | In our country to exchange gifts does not mean the same thing . |
| 14 | Whether nature does or does not do the same thing is always tantalising , and sometimes revealing about the principles and mechanisms underlying the creation of structures . |
| 15 | An eight-year-old child does not learn the same thing at the same speed as a five-year-old child . |
| 16 | The fact that we 've both done the same thing — I was an actress although I 'm a writer now — is totally unimportant . |