Example sentences of "[verb] the same thing [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 2 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 3 | And design your dinner so that everyone can eat the same thing and enjoy it — with the recipes below , even the greediest red meat-and-potatoes man will feel he 's had his fill ! |
| 4 | Does topic mean the same thing as theme , that is , what the message is about ? |
| 5 | And they always say the same things and you think , oh you told us that yesterday . |
| 6 | No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field . |
| 7 | Historically the computational approach has been most actively pursued by engineers eager to build machines that can do the same things as humans . |
| 8 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 9 | They are all female and since they too are also reproductively sufficient unto themselves , they can do the same thing as their mother even before they have left her body . |
| 10 | Later you can do the same thing when walking along or when sitting in a car ( but only if you are the passenger please — do n't try it while driving ! ) |
| 11 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 12 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 13 | As has already been observed by the Dominican , Conrad Pepler : we need not to labour the fact that Hilton is writing the same things as St John of the Cross , … |
| 14 | The second man comes , he says the same thing and his brother 's waiting at the gate and she goes only if you fuck me ! |
| 15 | ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week . |
| 16 | But perhaps you do not see the same thing as I do . |
| 17 | Could you look also please at page fifty six in the same tag which is home which was forty nine , it carries on to fifty six , we can see there you 've got the same thing but you 've got a drawing there and not a photograph of something that 's in the area , Court Castle in Dorset |
| 18 | Well there 's a contrast in personality and you do n't really know whether anybody 's got the same thing because nobody 's narrowed it down |
| 19 | We heard the same thing when the Labour Government introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970 . |
| 20 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 21 | Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation |
| 24 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 25 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 26 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 27 | It is in a way saying the same thing as the preface to The Reason of Church Government . |
| 28 | Now this woman , a complete stranger , was saying the same thing because she was with Nathan . |
| 29 | has experienced the same thing as we all have . |
| 30 | Putting these sentences into a broader situation reveals that they do not presuppose the same thing and that , in spite of Jespersen 's claim that the infinitive event is represented as occurring before the existence of the gladness , exactly the opposite is the case in the way the speaker represents the situation . |