Example sentences of "[verb] exactly [art] same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles has exactly the same thing . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you want exactly the same things she does , but you hide behind the pillars of your ice palace , pretending to be so unapproachable . |
| 3 | I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings . |
| 4 | Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing . |
| 5 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 6 | The strange thing about these different ways of arranging the same information is that they all apparently mean exactly the same thing . |
| 7 | Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual . |
| 8 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 9 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 10 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 12 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 13 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 14 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 15 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 16 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 17 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 18 | It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to . |
| 19 | Anyway , apparently , he was told exactly the same thing as I was told |
| 20 | ‘ I was thinking I 'd like exactly the same thing , ’ she confessed , giving him a radiant smile . |
| 21 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 22 | Like the French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars , used to do exactly the same thing . |
| 23 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 24 | And er if if it 's appropriate for North Yorkshire to apply environmental constraints within the whole of its area , I 'm not talking about particular districts but in in the whole of its area , then it is appropriate for Leeds and Bradford and the metropolitan districts to do exactly the same thing . |
| 25 | Well , what observed exactly the same thing with , with baboons , and said to himself , why are these animals doing this ? |
| 26 | No wear erm wear yeah wear a tight dress and once you get in there so many other people are wearing exactly the same thing |
| 27 | Erm and and yeah an and we were thinking oh yeah we look really good and we go along and , but there 's so many other girls wearing exactly the same thing that you just blend in , you do n't you know what I mean ? |
| 28 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 29 | Then the same bunch of faces pop up , standing in exactly the same positions , doing exactly the same things in front of different houses . |
| 30 | Although I do n't feel I 've changed much because I 'm doing exactly the same things . |