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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps he was thinking of other things at the same time . |
| 8 | The answer was to sell other things in the same style : china , lighting , textiles , rugs and kitchenware . |
| 9 | Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |