Example sentences of "[verb] the same thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 2 | For some of the work auditory sequences are presented to investigate the question of whether auditory and visual temporal patterns mean the same thing to the infant . |
| 3 | No doubt you tried the same thing with him — implying that we 'd got along rather better than we ought to have ? ’ |
| 4 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 5 | Most of the Bank 's economists say that Africa 's performance has been disappointing not because the gospel is wrong , but because it has not been properly implemented ( Marxists , mind you , say the same thing about communism ) . |
| 6 | I think that two and a eleven basically say the same thing in different in different ways . |
| 7 | Greene has Adonis refuse the goddess in Perimedes the Blacke-Smith in 1588 ; Spenser has the same thing in The Faerie Queene , and Marlowe in Hero and Leander . |
| 8 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 9 | Ann said they kept both wanting the same thing at the same time . |
| 10 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 11 | He 's done the same thing with the torture scene . |
| 12 | It appears we 've done the same thing with the brick and the flints . |
| 13 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 14 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 15 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 16 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 17 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 18 | Can we do the same thing for the magnetic quantities ? |
| 19 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 20 | You can do the same thing for any of the others , so however man many sides you want , |
| 21 | One could do the same thing with ‘ unicorn ’ , which has sense but no verifiable reference . |
| 22 | Just as it is possible for an athlete to train himself to run faster by gradually increasing his speed , you can do the same thing with your reading . |
| 23 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 24 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 25 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 26 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 27 | Not based upon any consensus of content , nor the expectation that teachers will do the same thing with all the class , this takes seriously the concept of the teacher as the manager of pupils ' own learning instead of a purveyor of information and ideas . |
| 28 | But , the fact is you can read over it , you can study it in a very literary way , you just ca n't do the same thing with Johnson . |
| 29 | At the end of each week you can then add up your total time and compare your planned and achieved time to measure your progress ; and you can do the same thing at the end of 30 days . |
| 30 | Mrs Clinton tells Vanity Fair , apparently without weighing the truth of the charges against Mr Bush : ‘ What Bill does n't understand is you 've got ta do the same thing in response as you do in negative advertising . ’ |