Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has anyone got any I mean I you do n't all need to write about the same thing or anything . |
| 2 | because it 's all rolled into the same thing . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe . |
| 4 | Attacked by the same thing that got Silk . |
| 5 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 6 | Well this er came through the same thing , the Youth Hostels Association , we had a visit from Gyp some German ones who did m play reading in hostels , and er some of ours went back there , and the Youth Hostels Associations , they had a play reading group , and er I joined that . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 10 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 11 | Paintings which describe the natural world are indeed easiest for the critic to describe , since any observer can compare an object seen with the same thing depicted . |
| 12 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 13 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 14 | You see , it came from the same thing . |
| 15 | In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 17 | The success of get rich-quick schemes and some of the earlier pyramid ventures depend on the same thing . |
| 18 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 19 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 20 | To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) . |
| 21 | so , so that everybody 's threatened by the same thing so that |
| 22 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 23 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is not demoralising because everyone around you is going through the same thing . |
| 26 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’ |
| 28 | Any measure based on ratios ( or , what amounts to the same thing , differences in logs ) is to be preferred . |
| 29 | If you can afford a magic standard then you can use this to increase the leadership or add to your combat result which amounts to the same thing for the all important break test . |
| 30 | Users often report experiencing the sort of twisted non-Euclidian dimensions associated with the Old Ones , so it 's reasonable to assume that this is how Mait made contact with them , or with whatever race memory remains of them , which amounts to the same thing . ’ |