Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 2 | Is there anything that 's fundamental changed with I mean we 're using exactly the same formulation . |
| 3 | Because they are one of the worst ones if they bought er a Land Rover or any any British make , Oh oh look at the shoddy British , they 're crying they 're up in arms and they 're doing exactly the same thing now . |
| 4 | No wear erm wear yeah wear a tight dress and once you get in there so many other people are wearing exactly the same thing |
| 5 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 6 | ‘ His people are justifiably condemning Riddick Bowe for flouting the rules , but they are doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 8 | We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between sexuality and civilization from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing , whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals . |
| 9 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 10 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 11 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 12 | it does n't matter what building society you go to , you 're gon na be paying basically the same rate . |
| 13 | I had a phone call from somebody who was obviously be doing exactly the same thing , and he actually just was booking an appointment to come in and see me . |
| 14 | If Bishop Auckland was where Darlington is I would be doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | But then again Luton will be saying exactly the same thing . |
| 16 | Viola would have to give up her career , of course — otherwise she would be coming home the same time as Gina , which would not do at all . |
| 17 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 18 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 19 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |
| 20 | And you were doing exactly the same thing were n't you ? |
| 21 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 22 | But , in this case , the printer is using exactly the same font obviously , for s and f . |
| 23 | Caricom is pointing cautiously the same way . |
| 24 | After the strike , British Coal was free to reduce its workforce from 221,000 to below 100,000 ( June 1989 ) , but was producing almost the same quantity of coal because of a 60 per cent increase in productivity ( Figure 5.6A ) . |
| 25 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
| 26 | ‘ At the same time , in the back of my mind , there was the thought that , actually , I had a distant connection who was doing just the same thing . ’ |
| 27 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 28 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 29 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |