Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
2 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
3 | I once spent six months as a PR person , and I 'm not getting caught twice the same way . |
4 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
5 | It is fascinating to speculate on the reactions of the Eritreans to the spectacle of a man asking to have again the same conversations and introductions , this time with four or five other men holding cameras , lights and recorders . |
6 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
7 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
8 | And meanwhile Greece has to reckon with the fact that Turkey , on the other side of the Aegean , is planning to lure exactly the same sort of middle-class tourist with exactly the same combination of sunshine , classical ruins and mildly exotic food — and , it must be added , with lower costs and beaches many of which are less in need of de-whiffing . |