Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 2 | Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing . |
| 3 | Well , what observed exactly the same thing with , with baboons , and said to himself , why are these animals doing this ? |
| 4 | Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed . |
| 5 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 6 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 7 | They also played the same games in the playground , and when a group had the same work in class , everybody would whisper or signal the answer to everyone else , + everyone put down the same things , whether right or wrong ! |
| 8 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 9 | ‘ I did exactly the same thing last year in LA , ’ he revealed . |
| 10 | He then did exactly the same thing , spluttering and spraying the remains of his drink down his shirt . |
| 11 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 12 | They should be aware that Mr beat Mr Brown to the punch and did exactly the same thing a few months ago . |
| 13 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |
| 14 | The German artillery did just the same thing , as the following account from the British side shows : |
| 15 | The French did precisely the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |
| 17 | A much later , much more sophisticated critic , Ortega y Gasset , said much the same thing : |
| 18 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Creppiny , Mr Chairman , ’ she corrected him irritably ) said much the same thing , but took longer to do so . |
| 19 | Often in the days when she had been touring , had not the same thing happened — and nothing thought of it ? |
| 20 | yes , I had exactly the same thing , being a top flight secretary at work |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , my ma and pa said exactly the same things to me when I was a kid , but I took no notice of it . ’ |
| 22 | At the Brummel Club that evening , Ralph had n't changed his mind — he said exactly the same thing — after tonight 's gig you 're finished . |
| 23 | Dr Frome said exactly the same thing , sitting beside his wife , in the living room of Deauville , Maple Grove , when he was interviewed by Mike Pumfrey and Fenniway . |
| 24 | Well , I , I said everybody 's said , everybody said exactly the same thing , they said what do you think of her ? |
| 25 | But my sister said exactly the same thing when she began a lot of those new remedies . |
| 26 | But when I heard about the murder I wondered just the same thing . ’ |