Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
| 2 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 3 | How can we achieve a new look when some things are going to stay exactly the same ? |
| 4 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
| 5 | I once spent six months as a PR person , and I 'm not getting caught twice the same way . |
| 6 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 7 | It is fascinating to speculate on the reactions of the Eritreans to the spectacle of a man asking to have again the same conversations and introductions , this time with four or five other men holding cameras , lights and recorders . |
| 8 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 9 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 10 | And meanwhile Greece has to reckon with the fact that Turkey , on the other side of the Aegean , is planning to lure exactly the same sort of middle-class tourist with exactly the same combination of sunshine , classical ruins and mildly exotic food — and , it must be added , with lower costs and beaches many of which are less in need of de-whiffing . |