Example sentences of "[art] same thing [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horses do much the same thing except that , probably for reasons of historical accident , they run on only one toe instead of two . |
| 2 | Was a TV programme the same thing whether it came to your set by satellite , by cable , by terrestrial transmitter or by videotape ? |
| 3 | No one should forget he said the same thing before Celtic played Partizan . |
| 4 | If this is the case , then means and ends amount to the same thing since the same moral demands apply to both in the quest for Truth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was n't too happy about getting down the rock-climb , but luckily there were two other fellows doing the same thing so we egged each other on . |
| 7 | Mario Mieli quotes an unnamed gay writer : ‘ we [ gay men ] demand our ‘ femininity' ’ , the same thing that women reject , and at the same time we declare that these roles are devoid of sense' ( Homosexuality and Liberation , 46 ) . |
| 8 | It 's part of the same thing that allows Royal marriages to break-up and sex before marriage . |
| 9 | Attacked by the same thing that got Silk . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's pretty much the same thing that is happening in my body . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The same thing that 's happened in Ireland has happened all over the world . |
| 12 | ‘ I say what 's happening with the Bloods and the Crips is the same thing that 's happening with the protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland , which is the same thing that 's happening in South Africa where different tribes fight each other . |
| 13 | ‘ I say what 's happening with the Bloods and the Crips is the same thing that 's happening with the protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland , which is the same thing that 's happening in South Africa where different tribes fight each other . |
| 14 | It was the same thing that made him physically shrink into his scarf and his leather jacket . |
| 15 | What will determine whether it emerges in one form or another is market demand — the same thing that will determine the pace and direction of electronic book development more generally . |
| 16 | And anything that goes in between those disturbs the beam and it causes an electric current to sound the alarm and it 's the same thing that happens with the er detectors . |
| 17 | S s so w if we use the same thing that we 've just done on our own house and say how can we stop it from happening , might not get a burglar alarm . |
| 18 | He thought your freelance Mrs Howard represented the same thing that he thinks he represents himself : the defence of this country . |
| 19 | Just just er just so I can be absolutely sure about that I think I 'm say I 'm asking the same thing that the senior inspector 's just asked . |
| 20 | I entirely accept that if er , four years on we were still doing the same thing that then they 'd be er , some erm , requirement for er , cutting back but I think it is also worth reminding ourselves that due to the action of this conservative government in er , forcing the local government review , er , we are facing the spectre er , of an additional full meeting of this council , and indeed we have had to er , respond to that government initiative . |
| 21 | ( If say something is ‘ yours ’ you will say of the same thing that it is ‘ ours ’ when you refer to it ) . |
| 22 | Cos on ours , we just return the same thing that they send |
| 23 | Erm and and yeah an and we were thinking oh yeah we look really good and we go along and , but there 's so many other girls wearing exactly the same thing that you just blend in , you do n't you know what I mean ? |
| 24 | He 's he 's shot himself in the foot in one sense , because he does n't know what we 've said already , so he may come and say exactly the same thing that we 've been saying , in which case we will cheer and you will boo . |
| 25 | The idea that dinosaurs simply radiated into the ecological niches that had already been vacated , and that mammals I 30 million or so years later did the same thing after the dinosaurs had departed , has profound philosophical implications . |
| 26 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |
| 27 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 28 | ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’ |
| 29 | Laughing and laughin' or [ ga:d ] and [ go:d ] can more convincingly be shown to be used to say referentially the same thing than any pair of postulated synonymous syntactic constructions such as the liquor store was broken into versus they broke into the liquor store . |
| 30 | 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 . |