Example sentences of "all [verb] [prep] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | because it 's all rolled into the same thing . |
| 2 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The public purse would not get anything ; after all , it all comes to the same thing . |