Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [det] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have trusted him to be here at this discussion and say much the same things other people here would be saying . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you want exactly the same things she does , but you hide behind the pillars of your ice palace , pretending to be so unapproachable . |
| 3 | Categories such as ‘ theatre and entertainment ’ or ‘ cinema and film ’ did not include quite the same things in 1987 as in 1961 , or not in the same proportions . |
| 4 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 5 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 6 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 7 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 8 | Then the same bunch of faces pop up , standing in exactly the same positions , doing exactly the same things in front of different houses . |
| 9 | Although I do n't feel I 've changed much because I 'm doing exactly the same things . |
| 10 | We 'll meet here , on the same day , in two years ' time , at seven o'clock , and we 'll have exactly the same things to eat , and tell each other quite frankly in what ways we 've changed . |
| 11 | It does not matter if you do not have exactly the same things as are shown in the drawing ; alter the design to suit what you have . |
| 12 | Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed . |
| 13 | They also played the same games in the playground , and when a group had the same work in class , everybody would whisper or signal the answer to everyone else , + everyone put down the same things , whether right or wrong ! |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , my ma and pa said exactly the same things to me when I was a kid , but I took no notice of it . ’ |