Example sentences of "[verb] much the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 2 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 3 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 4 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 5 | One can imagine the expulsion to Earth ( of Melkor ) and the expulsion to Middle-earth ( of Galadriel ) coming , in a mind like Éomer 's , to seem much the same thing . |
| 6 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 7 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 8 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 9 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 10 | We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between sexuality and civilization from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing , whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals . |
| 11 | Horses do much the same thing except that , probably for reasons of historical accident , they run on only one toe instead of two . |
| 12 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 13 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 14 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |
| 15 | A much later , much more sophisticated critic , Ortega y Gasset , said much the same thing : |
| 16 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Creppiny , Mr Chairman , ’ she corrected him irritably ) said much the same thing , but took longer to do so . |
| 17 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |