Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 2 | No wear erm wear yeah wear a tight dress and once you get in there so many other people are wearing exactly the same thing |
| 3 | Erm and and yeah an and we were thinking oh yeah we look really good and we go along and , but there 's so many other girls wearing exactly the same thing that you just blend in , you do n't you know what I mean ? |
| 4 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 5 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 6 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 7 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 8 | We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between sexuality and civilization from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing , whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals . |
| 9 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 10 | Then the same bunch of faces pop up , standing in exactly the same positions , doing exactly the same things in front of different houses . |
| 11 | Although I do n't feel I 've changed much because I 'm doing exactly the same things . |
| 12 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
| 13 | I realize that there may well be seven others doing exactly the same thing , but I believe that God will help the most sincere and the most deserving . |
| 14 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 15 | ‘ His people are justifiably condemning Riddick Bowe for flouting the rules , but they are doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 17 | Do you really think that was a coincidence-gravity pulling on the Shuttle harder like that so both of you end up doing exactly the same thing ? |
| 18 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 19 | Of course , little bits of practice help ; but if a child goes on doing exactly the same thing just as incompetently every day for a month , or even three months , it does not necessarily mean that no progress is being made : it is , but inside , where you ca n't see it . |
| 20 | Doing exactly the same thing . |
| 21 | ’ — to have a creep in the family doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |
| 23 | Because they are one of the worst ones if they bought er a Land Rover or any any British make , Oh oh look at the shoddy British , they 're crying they 're up in arms and they 're doing exactly the same thing now . |
| 24 | I had a phone call from somebody who was obviously be doing exactly the same thing , and he actually just was booking an appointment to come in and see me . |
| 25 | If Bishop Auckland was where Darlington is I would be doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 26 | And you were doing exactly the same thing were n't you ? |
| 27 | ‘ At the same time , in the back of my mind , there was the thought that , actually , I had a distant connection who was doing just the same thing . ’ |
| 28 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 29 | But then again Luton will be saying exactly the same thing . |
| 30 | If the countries of the EC all give up national power and pass it to the European level , are they all giving up the same thing ? |