Example sentences of "[verb] [art] same thing [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But you can imagine running your household on that kind of a system , supposing you got the whole food basket , and supposing it was adequate , could you make your children eat the same thing day after day , after day after day . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ He does n't do a damn thing for the good of mankind , but makes one hell of a fat living by buying cheap from one worker and selling the same thing dear to another worker . |
4 | Everything took getting used to , she said , saying the same thing night after night , softly in the darkness . |
5 | ‘ An accountant came up to me once at a party and said , do n't you find it boring doing the same thing night after night . ’ |
6 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
7 | And they do the same thing day in day out . |
8 | The withdrawal from the world , the silence , the disciplines of community and the deliberate cult of monotony in a system where everybody wears the same clothes and does the same things day after day have been found to support the mystic during his frequently lonely journey , to earth him in reality and to wean him away from an excitement and drama that is inimical to the mystical experience . |