Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | All doing the same thing with all with the same earning potential . |
| 2 | Look , we 're all doing the same thing at different |
| 3 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 4 | Good old Britain : not only doing the wrong thing but unable to keep it secret . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose we 'll be all thinking the same thing tonight , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Emily was obviously thinking the same thing . |
| 7 | Just because some of them do n't know their arse from their elbow does n't mean that we 're not bringing the whole thing under control . ’ |
| 8 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 9 | If you compare when we first came to Harlow , which is only twenty years ago , the possession of a television set , erm was only just becoming the normal thing |
| 10 | Language , by not replacing the signified thing at the supposed centre of the structure it has created , discredits the idea of there being a centre at all . |
| 11 | Er er er so so we 've got lots of opportunity for er getting the name in front of young people , promoting design and technology and the engineering concept , getting these kids working on something that 's real and live , erm and generally promoting the whole thing . |
| 12 | Lester is one-dimensional ; there 's nothing else he can think about apart from riding race horses , and getting a bit of money as well also helps him , so the problem is , when you 're one-dimensional , you 're lost if you 're not doing the only thing you love and understand , and that must be a bit sad . |
| 13 | And in that moment I realized that by some deep-rooted instinct I was already doing the right thing . |
| 14 | She would mince about in her old fashioned winkle-picker shoes not knowing the first thing about dancing . |
| 15 | I understand ; I mean , you want to know that someone is n't just making the whole thing up when they talk about a man being that special to them . |
| 16 | Exactly , I was just thinking the same thing . |
| 17 | The gabble continued , not repeating itself word for word but always saying the same thing . |
| 18 | It 's them , always saying the same thing . |
| 19 | Two people winking are not always doing the same thing . |
| 20 | Everyone in the stand went home saying the same thing — I 'd have got that one . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After the initial whisky or gin and tonic move on to plain ginger ale or tonic water with ice and lemon which will give the impression , if necessary , that you are still drinking the real thing . |
| 23 | That 's the only trouble , cos I 'm always changing the damn thing . |
| 24 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 25 | Then he remembered he 'd given up smoking the damned thing . |
| 26 | They reported that four other cars were also doing the same thing . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 28 | She then made a most offensive and denigrating remark about my practice , and is probably doing the same thing to everyone else here . ’ |
| 29 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 30 | Most people think that they 're being stupid if they have to ask a question they think that everyone else is n't probably thinking the same thing . |