Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [verb] to the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may discover early on in an interaction through words that you share common ground ( that you both went to the same school , for instance ) . |
| 2 | No , it 's got to be an alert , and if we all keep to the same story we might just get away with it . |
| 3 | We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company . |
| 4 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It turned out we both went to the same school , ’ Vlitos says , ‘ so things got very friendly . ’ |
| 6 | If everybody knows everybody else and they all go to the same parties , then there is bound to be a certain unanimity , if not in their judgements at least in their objects of attention . |
| 7 | She , they all go to the same school . |
| 8 | Each of these forms , or intensities , can be given a separate name , but they all belong to the same basic message : ‘ Clear off , or I will attack you . ’ |
| 9 | How can we be sure that the topics were put to a number of people in the same way ; that is , were they all responding to the same stimuli ? |
| 10 | So it does n't matter which way you do it whether you get four twelfths , two sixths , or one third , they 're all the same they all comes to the same thing . |
| 11 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 12 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 13 | Although these two expressions have the same referent ( they both refer to the same celestial object , Venus ) , they differ in sense , as the evening star means " the star which appears in the evening " , and the morning star means " the star which appears in the morning " . |
| 14 | The statistics may have low confidence levels , and the assumptions for deduction may be ill founded ; but if they both lead to the same classification , then a learner can trust it . |
| 15 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 16 | He now wishes he had used the phrase ‘ cycles of disadvantage ’ instead , though it all comes to the same thing — when poverty is perpetuated through family patterns , generation after generation . |
| 17 | The public purse would not get anything ; after all , it all comes to the same thing . |