Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I think once we 've established that , we can have argument about whether members need more assistance , but at least we 're arguing on the same basis , are n't we ? |
| 2 | Revisiting the site at intervals ( of at least a week ) note whether the marked animals are feeding on the same prey or not . |
| 3 | As it was , I felt thrilled to be walking on the same ground that young Thomson had trodden long before . |
| 4 | The main disadvantage is that there is a possibility , with large customers in particular , that several different representatives from the organization will each be calling on the same customer . |
| 5 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 6 | Not surprisingly Antrim will be relying on the same side that finished that day . |
| 7 | Bristol claims its approach to the issue is more viable and ultimately more independent of Microsoft than other solutions from firms which are believed to be working on the same problem . |
| 8 | They had been fighting on the same side in a war which is often erroneously characterised as an ethnic conflict ; fighting for what the Serb guerrillas call the ‘ Muslim side ’ . |
| 9 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 10 | The pressure to do work against 'cos they knew that Germany were working on the same lines , did n't they , the enormous pressure to get there first . |
| 11 | Dad 's family were living at Charlton-All-Saints between Salisbury and Downton in the mid eighteen-nineties and , as was the custom , not only grandfather but also his two elder sons were working on the same farm . |
| 12 | She 's travelling on the same train as you , but do n't fall in love with her . ’ |
| 13 | We have heard recently that Trafford is working on the same lines , so we will have to get a move on . |
| 14 | Tape back-up units , because if everyone is working on the same set of master files you ca n't afford to lose them |
| 15 | His love affair was with laughter , and it came in Black Comedy when his character , sculptor Brindsley Miller , was improving the look of his shabby flat by ‘ borrowing ’ priceless porcelain and antique furniture from his friend next door to impress his fiancee 's snooty father , who is visiting on the same evening that the supposed richest man in the world is arriving to inspect his sculpture . |
| 16 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
| 17 | She had been sleeping on the same step for three nights . |
| 18 | He went up to London that day , and in fact was travelling on the same train as Stratton when the two of them arrived back in Oxford . |