Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | With everybody else who worked in shops did the same thing . |
| 2 | Accordingly it would be surprising if animals learned the same thing about the stimulus in the two cases . |
| 3 | Dr Baltimore said the same thing — and repeated it in an article published in the summer of 1989 , arguing that ‘ the errors that have been identified in the Cell paper were inconsequential to the conclusions . ’ |
| 4 | The last time they were in office Labour said the same thing , those earning less than a certain amount would not pay tax , however , in reality everybody paid out more and remember Harold Wilson 's pound in your pocket speech ? |
| 5 | So when the Sergeant-Major asked me where I hoped to be posted eventually , I told him the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes ; this did n't surprise him as most British recruits said the same thing . |
| 6 | The Shannon Development Company had a ‘ Matchmaker ’ service to match up the capacities of local suppliers with the needs of industrial purchasers , the Irish Development Authority ‘ Project Identification Unit ’ supplied local firms with information on the purchasing requirements of the multinationals , and the Irish Goods Council did the same thing . |
| 7 | Erm e e they 're all individual and mine I think , looking back , was erm erm er a light er experience and I mean as I 've said , the the erm er w this telescope they shove up you , er I mean , Chris Patton had the same thing . |
| 8 | Three days later , three more officers did the same thing . |
| 9 | I remembered them again when Tony Jacklin did the same thing at the very next Open — — and , amazingly , at the 17th again . |
| 10 | Belinda asked the same thing . |
| 11 | Roger Baxter-Jones decided the same thing the next year for similar reasons and died guiding on another freak accident . ’ |
| 12 | That 's how people live these days , you know , my daughter did the same thing with her husband , you know , they 're in a |
| 13 | California 's Apple Computer did the same thing in a bigger way last October , when it halved the price-tag on its popular Macintosh model . |
| 14 | In an interview with the Cumhuriyet newspaper of March 29 President Özal of Turkey said that since unification Germany had sought " to intervene everywhere … to prove that it was a major power " and that " in the past Hitler 's Germany did the same thing , although in other ways " . |
| 15 | Men in Trudgill 's study under-reported their use of the standard whereas women over-reported the same thing ( see the discussion of status above ) . |
| 16 | Another tom did the same thing , supplying his female with food while she was unable to leave the nest during the first days after producing her litter . |
| 17 | Hilary said the same thing , in a rather different tone of voice , over the breakfast table next morning to his parents . |
| 18 | He thought your freelance Mrs Howard represented the same thing that he thinks he represents himself : the defence of this country . |
| 19 | The ceremony is said to derive from the day in the year 52 when San Barnaba did the same thing outside the walls of Milan to symbolize the city 's conversion to Christianity . |
| 20 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 21 | Miss Henry said the same thing . |