Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 2 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |
| 3 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 4 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 5 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 6 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 8 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 9 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 10 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 11 | To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) . |
| 12 | It is not demoralising because everyone around you is going through the same thing . |
| 13 | They smiled into each other 's faces , pointing to the same things at the same time , sharing . |
| 14 | I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing , unless their circumstances were very similar . |
| 15 | I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing , unless their circumstances were very similar . |
| 16 | In the heat of debate , when one side may accuse the other of not knowing what they are talking about , both sides will still assume they are talking about the same thing . |
| 17 | When making a contract be sure that you are both talking about the same thing . |
| 18 | There is one proviso to this : make sure that both you and the client are talking about the same thing . |
| 19 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 20 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 21 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 22 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 23 | There is the statement-kind , thirdly , overlapping with the second , such that truth-value may be argued , to my mind unpersuasively , to depend on the inclusion of one particular referring expression , rather than another expression referring to the same thing . |
| 24 | That is I think that when I refer to and when I refer to I am referring to the same thing |