Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 2 | Theoretically , bats could do the same thing , but dolphins seem more likely candidates because they are in general more social . |
| 3 | It 's strange that two quite different words can mean the same thing . |
| 4 | It 's strange that two quite different words can mean the same thing . |
| 5 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 6 | This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough . |
| 7 | In some parts of the country spur and snag can mean the same thing , and in others have quite different meanings — but they are still caused by the same thing : bad pruning . |
| 8 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 9 | Aerial surveys can achieve the same thing , although the maps so obtained cover a smaller area . |
| 10 | Two people may analyse the same thing in a different way . |
| 11 | I 've told her dad to sit because people might get the same thing . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're confident your father would say the same thing ? ’ |
| 13 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 14 | Not based upon any consensus of content , nor the expectation that teachers will do the same thing with all the class , this takes seriously the concept of the teacher as the manager of pupils ' own learning instead of a purveyor of information and ideas . |
| 15 | By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing . |