Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kept pestering the others about what is known as " account trading " ( where one can buy and sell the same stock within a two week period , hoping that the stock price will have risen ) . |
| 2 | It was never still and no two waves rose and broke the same way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 6 | After about eight issues he picked up a copy and noticed that Bowart-using the same technique he had used to appoint Miles London correspondent — had appointed him , and William Randolph Hearst as editors . |
| 7 | Within their firm containment , he can slowly learn about holding mixed feelings — loving and hating the same person . |
| 8 | Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms . |
| 9 | ‘ Shit , ’ she murmured and punched the same digits . |
| 10 | The ordeal of repetition is a way to jumpstart the indecision of beginning again : not to repeat what has been done but to retrace the same path . |
| 11 | The same object may reflect different wavelengths at different times yet be seen as having the same colour . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Most of the major PC packages ; Lotus 1–2–3 , Microsoft Word , WordPerfect , PageMaker , dBase , etc , etc , all now have direct Macintosh equivalents that read and write the same file structures . |
| 14 | ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | But that same reader is likely to resent and disbelieve the same insight when it is told him as a fact by an author . |
| 16 | Another mechanism , poorly understood until recently , is the increase in the proliferative zone length by the exaggeraton of the folds in the basal epithelium ( papillae formation ) to enable an increased proliferative compartment to generate and maintain the same size of superficial ( differentiated ) epithelial compartment . |
| 17 | ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’ |
| 18 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 19 | We want more choice and better prices from them , and the second says the shops can now decide whether to charge the same amount for credit card and cash purchases , or whether to charge differentially . |
| 20 | Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' . |
| 21 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 22 | Because syntax is embedded in discourse , entirely different forms might have similar functions ( i.e. be used as equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ) ; for this reason it is sometimes difficult to specify a principled way of knowing where to stop counting particular forms as variants of a variable . |
| 23 | This may be said to constitute evidence that the speaker views [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] as ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ . |
| 24 | With examples of teaching on video any number of observers can share and discuss the same experience . |
| 25 | You ca n't almost die and remain the same person you were before . |
| 26 | Further , I submit file notes that concern the same issue . |
| 27 | All that crap about ‘ I do n't know why I lurv you but I do ’ was bollocks 'cos he then went and said the same things to the scum . |
| 28 | Try and get the same fractions |
| 29 | He had been there when his Auntie Margaret died and heard the same sound . |
| 30 | Next I began to worship actors like gods and I 'd go and see the same performance again and again , transported , until I learned that the actor , the one I had in mind , was exceptionally polygamous and stingy as a goat and so I let that one go . |