Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 2 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 3 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 4 | How terrible to adore like this so that you want to lie in the same grave and share nothing with the world but live above it like Zeus and Hera . |
| 5 | At first sight the five all appear to live on the same species of grass , herbs , and small bushes . |
| 6 | The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets . |
| 7 | Three- and four-year-olds appear to act on the same assumption . |
| 8 | Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse . |
| 9 | " You never seem to appear in the same gown twice running . |
| 10 | Similarly , it is often the case that senior officials within the civil service all seem to come from the same sort of background . |
| 11 | Fundamentally however , all objects such as ‘ chapters ’ , ‘ sections ’ , ‘ entries ’ , ‘ acts ’ and ‘ scenes ’ , ‘ cantos ’ etc. seem to behave in the same way : they are incomplete in themselves , and often nest hierarchically . |
| 12 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 13 | Being situated in Farmoor the village is very sought after and residents seem to move within the same village as it is so popular . |
| 14 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 15 | Other diarrhoea-causing bacteria seem to operate on the same principle as cholera enterotoxin ie. by blocking sodium and chloride ion reabsorption and causing chloride ion secretion into the gut lumen . |
| 16 | They cooperate because they all stand to gain from the same outcome — the survival and reproduction of the communal body — and because they constitute an important part of the environment in which natural selection works on each other . |
| 17 | If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) . |
| 18 | Many insects respond to sound in the same way . |
| 19 | When two bodies attempt to exist within the same sub-space their functional association needs to be checked . |
| 20 | Should two adjacent needles try to tuck at the same time , there is nothing between these two needles to actually hold the loops on to the individual needles , so the loops become just one loop , which often falls off both needles . |
| 21 | Said Mr Robinson : ‘ Several views were aired and it is now important that we all try to push in the same direction to the benefit of the club . ’ |
| 22 | but you hate to think at the same time what happened how they were burning you hate to think of |
| 23 | MAKE everyone in the house agree to breakfast at the same time so you ( a ) get a clear kitchen , and ( b ) know you can get some help . |
| 24 | Now we start to look at the same stitch types again , but this time used as a double bed knitting techniques . |
| 25 | where branches are silouetted against the colours of the sunset they must be rich and strong enough to help intensify the sense of the light coming through then , but not so rich that they seem to close , or start to compete with the same thing happening in the ripples that form their reflection . |
| 26 | The three men start to speak at the same time . |
| 27 | Well I tend to move in the same fleet . |
| 28 | Return to base along the same route . |
| 29 | It is surprising how many people waste their time in class by not concentrating , and then have to go over the same ground again at home . |
| 30 | ‘ There are no easy games and we have to perform in the same manner that has taken us where we are today . ’ |