Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat . |
| 2 | ( For example , if a comparison of a new intervention is made with current practice , minimum practice , or doing nothing do I agree that in my setting the same comparison programme would apply ? ) |
| 3 | Rather unpleasantly , there 's a pile of excrement at the bottom of one of the vents , suggestive of someone dumping the same down from upstairs ( Bardul , in fact ; see locations 55 and 58 ) . |
| 4 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 5 | She began to look , with a somewhat dull kind of hopefulness , for somebody friendly , not too much in a hurry , walking the opposite way , although it would be more reasonable , really , to ask somebody walking the same way . |
| 6 | So , he had been winding her up about their sharing the same bed , amusing himself at her expense ! |
| 7 | Other than their having the same employer , what does it mean to say that they are each members of the same community ? |
| 8 | Given the commitment to its having the same entry qualifications as the degree , it did not become a clear alternative for large numbers of students . |
| 9 | It wo n't be us at the next E I P , but are n't you inventing the same problem |
| 10 | So were you doing the same kind of work then ? |
| 11 | If only to stop you making the same mistake twice , eh ? ’ |
| 12 | Catching Mary 's eye , he thought he caught her mind too : was she thinking the same thought ? |
| 13 | Most other birds of prey will fight if there 's more than one chasing the same prey . |
| 14 | ‘ We want the pair of them struck off to prevent them doing the same thing again , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 16 | Merlins will also hunt together , three or four of them chasing the same group of skylarks . |
| 17 | Paul Burrough was the happiest , as his was the only fish caught in his section , resulting in him scooping the same cash as the winner . |
| 18 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Could anyone who knew your cousin 's habits rely on him taking the same walk at approximately the same time each night ? ’ |
| 19 | Very often , if you isolate a sound it 's not that good , but with Keith and me playing the same thing , they combine and one complements the other . |
| 20 | The hall was packed with people ; music spilled out from the main hall beyond ; pipes and fiddles , tabors and accordions , guitars and a piano , several of them playing the same tune . |
| 21 | He is earning his living the same way in Karachi . |
| 22 | Although in general the evidence suggests that it is usually the man 's retirement that provokes most friction , this may change as more of today 's working wives turn sixty and find themselves facing the same need to make difficult adjustments . |
| 23 | Exactly 11 years later , I find myself doing the same job , this time in the Kremlin . |
| 24 | Do you see yourself having the same sort of lifestyle now like James |
| 25 | I am slightly irritated to find myself thinking the same thought at the same point every evening , but also rather comforted . |
| 26 | If this were so , then any inclination we may have to think that the heat we attribute to external objects and the bodily sensation of being hot must be alike derives from our using the same word for a quality of external objects and for a sensation , and not vice versa . |
| 27 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |