Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 .
2 As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree .
3 We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system .
4 The other terms , for example , are all the same in each market , so on averaging they occur in the same form as they do in an individual market .
5 But he was overruled by the others ; one judge said ‘ you had better appoint them judges ; and then I will retire , because I see no use in having them to act in the same capacity in which we are acting ourselves ’ .
6 Both the projector and the turntable were powered by the same motor to ensure they ran at the same speed .
7 Guess they mixed in the same diplomatic circles , got to know each other .
8 They , they 're just not getting back right now , I do n't know if it 's just to be sensitive to her or whether it 's just because , you know , they 're gon na see each o I mean they live on the same road , they 'll probably see each other this weekend .
9 It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time .
10 Populations evolved separately in each of these pools , and only when the water rose again did they re-convene in the same lake .
11 Careful descriptions of speech are necessary because people 's beliefs about their actual linguistic behaviour are often very inaccurate ; many people think they speak in the same way as they write but , in fact , no one does .
12 But do they believe in the same god or do they believe in different gods ?
13 Do they look about the same ?
14 Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ?
15 If we actually , very quickly , which round the world was meant to be , erm , those of you which are familiar with other countries , what about women in , say America , Ashley , are , are they , do they participate in the same way as they do here ?
16 Providing authorities/hospitals would be paid for cases treated either on the basis of actual cost per case , or on some laid-down or agreed cost per case , and there seems little to prevent them behaving in the same manner as hospitals elsewhere where either ‘ Retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or ‘ Prospective reimbursement ’ systems are in operation .
17 Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do !
18 so that modifications could be introduced in the physical , social or educational environments of these children which would help them achieve at the same level of conceptual development as is found in children from western societies .
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