Example sentences of "[to-vb] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 32 | Well Kerry 's going to do the same thing for twenty four . |
| 33 | But in a stage of my life I used to do the same thing a lot . |
| 34 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 35 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |
| 36 | In the same day we went to Oulton board to do the same thing but in freezing cold water that was not as much fun as the survival tank . |
| 37 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 38 | For the er we 'd really like to do the same thing for the whole weapons system with Eurofighter also but the the premium that eurofighter might demand to cover the risk . |
| 39 | But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing . |
| 40 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
| 41 | Detective Inspector Frank Wilkinson of Skelmersdale CID said : ‘ We want to find this man before he has a chance to do the same thing again . |
| 42 | And then you have to do the same thing again for the second line look |
| 43 | Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing . |
| 44 | and you 've got to try and get round them , oh god , there 's about six thousand trying to do the same thing . |
| 45 | You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation |
| 46 | about law and the film business cos there 's loads of jobs to choose from , ba and you 've still got to do the same thing |
| 47 | ‘ Every time we started doing a piece of research , ’ said an NCC officer , ‘ we 'd find the CEGB then commissioned another research team to investigate the same thing . ’ |
| 48 | He 's also talking about adjusting the company 's prices upwards because it 's silly to change the same thing for one or hundred users . |
| 49 | He would hardly be likely to say the same thing about Kylie . |
| 50 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 51 | I was going to say the same thing . |
| 52 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 53 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 54 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 55 | We do have occasions where we 're having to say the same thing er over and over again , because nothing very much has happened . |
| 56 | Women 's sub also happened to say the same thing . |
| 57 | Four years after a deaf , blind mentally handicapped woman was found dead in the squalor of her own home , a new register has been launched that hopes to stop the same thing ever happening again . |
| 58 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |
| 59 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 60 | soc : And I suppose you 'd like more of the same so you can go on pinpointing variation and replicate the studies which have been done to show the same thing in different places , or maybe to include a few more explanatory variables in your statistical model ? |