Example sentences of "[adj] thing [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the 18th century bylaws was ‘ that no person corrupt the town beck by letting into it stinking or hurtful water or washing unwholesome things in the same . ’ |
| 2 | I felt I had won several different things at the same time , including my war against the Portuguese Federation . |
| 3 | I felt two different things at the same time . |
| 4 | You will otherwise feel frustrated if you try to tackle different things at the same time . |
| 5 | If the meaning of an utterance does not wholly reside in the semantic meaning , and if people can mean quite different things with the same words , how do human beings interpret — usually quite accurately — what is meant from what is said ? |
| 6 | And then we 're having another thing with the same sort of brochure as a mailshot type thing in loose-leaf format . |
| 7 | There was a slight air of confusion as people rushed around trying to do three things at the same time . |
| 8 | There is however a problem , if one is trying to do both these things at the same time . |
| 9 | Is it a pure contradiction to affirm both these things at the same time ? |
| 10 | She never ceased to amaze Dexter with her ability to do several things at the same time — perhaps too many things , he thought , regarding her dishevelled hair and the flush of stress in her cheeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 13 | They smiled into each other 's faces , pointing to the same things at the same time , sharing . |
| 14 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 15 | In his words the global corporation ‘ sells the same things in the same way everywhere ’ . |
| 16 | An eight-year-old child does not learn the same thing at the same speed as a five-year-old child . |
| 17 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |
| 18 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 19 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 20 | Ann said they kept both wanting the same thing at the same time . |
| 21 | It 's very difficult to do er two things at the same time . |
| 22 | When I 'm drinking a glass of water , I 'm drinking a glass of water and not thinking about five other things at the same time . |
| 23 | Perhaps he was thinking of other things at the same time . |
| 24 | The answer was to sell other things in the same style : china , lighting , textiles , rugs and kitchenware . |
| 25 | Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way . |
| 26 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 27 | His touch could be wonderfully gentle , but it was never tentative ; he laid hands on holy things with the same direct and innocent fearlessness he used towards men and women . |