Example sentences of "[verb] on [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time . |
| 2 | Much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time , while for Business Studies and Public Relations students life looks pretty rosy . |
| 3 | Do you realize — all this was going on exactly the same last March ? |
| 4 | It seems to me , everything 's going on just the same as it was before . |
| 5 | The man under discussion in the White House was , at that moment , dwelling on precisely the same subject . |
| 6 | In total , mergers did not occur on quite the same scale as they did in the 1920s — which was equivalent to something like one-third of all firms in manufacturing going out of existence — but they caused the loss of an equivalent of a quarter of all firms . |
| 7 | Obviously , if you 're a very tiny newborn baby , the amount of food you need to er , put on extra pound weight , is , is not going to be the same as if you are a much larger child , and you want to put on proportionately the same amount of X pounds , whatever it would be , it would be same the same proportion of your weight . |
| 8 | Charles was just getting out of his bath and was about to put on again the same clothes he had taken off beforehand , when suddenly , there at the gates were envoys bringing from Aquitaine a crown and all the royal gear , and everything needed for holy rites ! |
| 9 | For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available . |
| 10 | Many small town craftsmen worked on much the same plan . |
| 11 | Weaving looms differ considerably in size and sophistication , but all operate on exactly the same principle , which requires a secure frame on which to tie the warp strands . |
| 12 | There are other probes that operate on exactly the same principle but are geometrically different : an important one is the hot-film anemometer ; the heated element consists of a thin metallic film on the surface of a wedge-shaped thermally and electrically insulating base . |
| 13 | The afternoon wore on much the same as the morning , only more slowly . |
| 14 | Lord Tebbit claimed that if Britain said ‘ no ’ , the Community would go on just the same as it did yesterday . |
| 15 | On parade Major Clark-Kennedy MC informed his troops life would go on just the same under a Queen . |
| 16 | It was also useless to pretend that corruption at elections was one-sided ; the scale was far smaller than thirty years earlier , but it went on just the same in both parties . |
| 17 | After all , despite what the judge had said Britain still went on much the same , Berlin was still a divided city ( and was later to become even more so ) and Russia seemed no more or less secure . |
| 18 | I regret I am not likely to lose weight in China , as their habit , at least in Peking , is to give us at least twice as much food as we need , and however much we gently suggest that three platefuls rather than six would be sufficient , they still go on just the same . |
| 19 | And it would seem similarly improbable , for the same statistical reasons , that two lines of evolution should converge on exactly the same endpoint from different starting points . |
| 20 | For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate . |
| 21 | Ælfric wrote on much the same lines . |
| 22 | Clive returned to England almost immediately to go into Parliament and keep an eye on East India Company policy in London , but his followers — whose idea of moderation ran on much the same lavish lines — remained in control of Bengal . |
| 23 | They carried on just the same as usual . |
| 24 | They did n't worry about them , they carried on just the same . |
| 25 | Oh , they stayed just the same as they are today , yo you carried on just the same , only the difference in them now , race days years ago , the heath was shut at half past nine . |
| 26 | Dr Reading and the Swedish scientists began their work independently , neither knowing that the other was working on virtually the same project . |