Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do all parties use the same words to mean the same thing ( eg do management accounts include a balance sheet or cash flow statement ) ? |
| 2 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |
| 3 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Every time we started doing a piece of research , ’ said an NCC officer , ‘ we 'd find the CEGB then commissioned another research team to investigate the same thing . ’ |
| 6 | In the same day we went to Oulton board to do the same thing but in freezing cold water that was not as much fun as the survival tank . |
| 7 | Detective Inspector Frank Wilkinson of Skelmersdale CID said : ‘ We want to find this man before he has a chance to do the same thing again . |
| 8 | Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing . |
| 9 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 10 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 11 | Such a taboo breaker is dangerous to the rest of the members of the society because they have strong unconscious desires to do the same thing . |