Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Running around in circles and seeing the same old thing defeats half the purpose . |
| 2 | We swallowed hard , stiffened our upper lip , and decided to ‘ see it through ’ by shutting our eyes and applying the same old formula regardless — a constitution , a mace , a copy of Erskine May , a Speaker 's chair and national independence . |
| 3 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
| 4 | The paper went on to consider the question of ‘ The Grading of Murders ’ , traversing the same ground as a Royal Commission would do six years later , and reaching the same negative conclusions , except that Ede rejected the idea of giving the jury any discretion : |
| 5 | And by buying two guides but getting the same historical information in each you do feel you 're not getting full value for money . |
| 6 | Early on , they imagined that all foster parents would be like them — not so rich perhaps , but sharing the same basic standards . |
| 7 | They they may draw the same compound but making the same structural formula , but drawn slightly differently ! |