Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 31 | I would like to stay the same age so I could play football . |
| 32 | Who 's got five different things they think they are important , they would like to change , they would like to stay the same , who 's got more than five , more than five ? |
| 33 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 34 | ‘ I have purchased a black lead Pencil Sketch of Mr. Green of Ambleside which I think has great merit , the materials being uncommonly picturesque and well put together ; I should dearly like to have the same subject ( it is the Cottage at Glencoyn , by Ullswater ) treated by you . ’ |
| 35 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 36 | I rushed into my last contract and do n't want to do the same again . ’ |
| 37 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 38 | If we were really lucky we 'd be able to go to conference and try and sell hundreds of them to other Green Parties who might want to do the same . |
| 39 | We do n't want to use the same cutlery an ’ that . ’ |
| 40 | You do n't want to use the same pen . |
| 41 | Tone generators and loudspeakers , however , have to cope with a multitude of frequencies and can not hope to move the same amount of air as the equivalent number of pipes . |
| 42 | ‘ Michael will no doubt say he had to discount them out to achieve the occupancy in the shoulder period , but I do n't know how he can explain doing the same in high season . ’ |
| 43 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 44 | What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket . |
| 45 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 46 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 47 | And they , do they all have to carry the same weight ? |
| 48 | Therefore , it is appropriate to insert such safeguarding words as : So long as the buyer shall remain in possession of the lease and shall not have assigned the same . |
| 49 | It says it 's wrong that a judge should have to pass the same sentence on an abused wife who kills a brutal husband as it does on a robber armed with a shotgun who kills in cold blood . |
| 50 | We would have to meet the same conditions — no more , no less . |
| 51 | In this sense , they may have occupied the same position in the Minoan religious system as angels and demons in the Christian belief-system in medieval Europe . |
| 52 | Local tradition may indicate where cottages stood until recently , but the fieldworker should be aware that much earlier structures may also have occupied the same sites . |
| 53 | Otherwise he might have suffered the same fate as Sheila Brayford . |
| 54 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 55 | You will still have turned the same amount as before , that is 180° . |
| 56 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 57 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 58 | She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available . |
| 59 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 60 | I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’ |