Example sentences of "[verb] the same thing [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 2 | And design your dinner so that everyone can eat the same thing and enjoy it — with the recipes below , even the greediest red meat-and-potatoes man will feel he 's had his fill ! |
| 3 | Does topic mean the same thing as theme , that is , what the message is about ? |
| 4 | No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field . |
| 5 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 6 | They are all female and since they too are also reproductively sufficient unto themselves , they can do the same thing as their mother even before they have left her body . |
| 7 | Later you can do the same thing when walking along or when sitting in a car ( but only if you are the passenger please — do n't try it while driving ! ) |
| 8 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 9 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 10 | The second man comes , he says the same thing and his brother 's waiting at the gate and she goes only if you fuck me ! |
| 11 | ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week . |
| 12 | But perhaps you do not see the same thing as I do . |
| 13 | Could you look also please at page fifty six in the same tag which is home which was forty nine , it carries on to fifty six , we can see there you 've got the same thing but you 've got a drawing there and not a photograph of something that 's in the area , Court Castle in Dorset |
| 14 | Well there 's a contrast in personality and you do n't really know whether anybody 's got the same thing because nobody 's narrowed it down |
| 15 | We heard the same thing when the Labour Government introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970 . |
| 16 | In the same day we went to Oulton board to do the same thing but in freezing cold water that was not as much fun as the survival tank . |
| 17 | You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation |
| 18 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 19 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 20 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 21 | It is in a way saying the same thing as the preface to The Reason of Church Government . |
| 22 | Now this woman , a complete stranger , was saying the same thing because she was with Nathan . |
| 23 | has experienced the same thing as we all have . |
| 24 | Putting these sentences into a broader situation reveals that they do not presuppose the same thing and that , in spite of Jespersen 's claim that the infinitive event is represented as occurring before the existence of the gladness , exactly the opposite is the case in the way the speaker represents the situation . |
| 25 | Just just er just so I can be absolutely sure about that I think I 'm say I 'm asking the same thing that the senior inspector 's just asked . |
| 26 | I was petrified of having the same thing as my mother did . |
| 27 | THE DOCTOR : I feel the same thing when I 'm holding a syringe : the power to fuck up someone 's life . |
| 28 | I was n't too happy about getting down the rock-climb , but luckily there were two other fellows doing the same thing so we egged each other on . |
| 29 | At first sight it may appear that all the children are doing the same thing but within each group allowance is made for ability and the children follow their own carefully planned programme at their own pace — this is updated regularly . |
| 30 | I entirely accept that if er , four years on we were still doing the same thing that then they 'd be er , some erm , requirement for er , cutting back but I think it is also worth reminding ourselves that due to the action of this conservative government in er , forcing the local government review , er , we are facing the spectre er , of an additional full meeting of this council , and indeed we have had to er , respond to that government initiative . |