Example sentences of "[prep] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |
| 2 | Until the FRC and its cohorts have made substantial progress in imposing uniformity in accounting matters , the profession will continue to be criticised because companies account for the same things in different ways . |
| 3 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 4 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 5 | Everybody was here for the same thing to be done to them . |
| 6 | The Empire might have become the Commonwealth , but that was just a new name for the same thing as far as we were concerned . |
| 7 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 8 | Only a week ago , she had stood in their butcher 's shop and-completely demolished the reputation of young Carrie Davidson for the same thing : having to get married . |
| 9 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 10 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 12 | are also erm being involved in take up campaign for the s for the same thing . |
| 13 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 14 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 15 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 16 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |
| 17 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 18 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 19 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
| 20 | and as the same thing applies to the knee exactly the same thing , wound there you keep the knee bent a little bit and you can do exactly the same bandage like a figure of eight , okay ? |
| 21 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 22 | I advise the Government , however , not to take an indication of confidence as the same thing as money over the counter . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | You see , a lot of the clichés about me are true and for real , it 's just in the end you can get tired talking about the same things . ’ |
| 25 | The Boston Compact was essentially about employability , ( although there were some initial allusions to community regeneration ) ; the two key funding UK government departments are obviously principally about the same thing . |
| 26 | In the heat of debate , when one side may accuse the other of not knowing what they are talking about , both sides will still assume they are talking about the same thing . |
| 27 | When making a contract be sure that you are both talking about the same thing . |
| 28 | And I am terribly bored by my colleagues in art history , who always write about the same thing . |
| 29 | There is one proviso to this : make sure that both you and the client are talking about the same thing . |
| 30 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |