Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the two British entries , Richardson and Hynds , worked together to take a substantial win in men 's K1 with Hemmings and Gilby doing the same thing in the ladies ' K1 event in a field of only three . |
| 2 | Alternatively , let him fly high to act as a aerial patrol to intercept an enemy trying the same thing . |
| 3 | ‘ I promise you , ’ she says , ‘ there is n't a woman who does n't come out of a bad divorce thinking the same thing . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ At first I was upset by this development , ’ said one official , ‘ but then I realised that with so many places selling the same things either they would go bust or they would have to channel their efforts into other , more necessary things . ’ |
| 5 | I remembered my own boyhood watching cavalrymen sticking tent pegs at the gymkhanas , and tried knights on shining white chargers , complete with shining white bascinets , breastplates , leg armour and gauntlets doing the same thing to my inside , but they never really filled the role . |
| 6 | Although he was promoted to begin his search for Troy because of an obscure literary reference to the lost city , he was at heart doing the same thing as modern detectorists ; albeit , some might say , at a more scholarly level — searching for something lost and using his wits to find it . |
| 7 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 8 | We have now a number of equations describing the same thing . |
| 9 | NBT audiences are ‘ not content to look at rows and rows of identical girls doing the same thing , ’ he maintains . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is in a way saying the same thing as the preface to The Reason of Church Government . |
| 12 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 13 | One person who spends much of his time doing the same thing is Master of Wine Tim Hanni from the Beringer Vineyards School for American Chefs . |