Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [v-ing] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am slightly irritated to find myself thinking the same thought at the same point every evening , but also rather comforted . |
| 2 | She began to look , with a somewhat dull kind of hopefulness , for somebody friendly , not too much in a hurry , walking the opposite way , although it would be more reasonable , really , to ask somebody walking the same way . |
| 3 | If only to stop you making the same mistake twice , eh ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We want the pair of them struck off to prevent them doing the same thing again , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Ever since the result of the General Election , I have taken for granted that , on Baldwin 's defeat in the House of Commons , the King would send for Ramsay MacDonald ; and I have deprecated any attempt to prevent his having the same facilities which would be accorded to any Minister entrusted by the Sovereign with the formation of a Government . |