Example sentences of "[vb past] the same thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 2 | No doubt you tried the same thing with him — implying that we 'd got along rather better than we ought to have ? ’ |
| 3 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 4 | Accordingly it would be surprising if animals learned the same thing about the stimulus in the two cases . |
| 5 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 6 | I says , do n't tell me , I said , he did the same thing to me the other day , and it were only within a couple of days of each other . |
| 7 | The ceremony is said to derive from the day in the year 52 when San Barnaba did the same thing outside the walls of Milan to symbolize the city 's conversion to Christianity . |
| 8 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 9 | She did the same in the kitchen ; she did the same thing with the books , removing them , dusting them carefully , and returning them to clean , wiped , and waxed shelves . |
| 10 | That 's how people live these days , you know , my daughter did the same thing with her husband , you know , they 're in a |
| 11 | It is a constant of any Minister 's experience — my hon. Friend referred to his experience as a Minister — that when a new scheme is introduced , there will always be somebody who did the same thing on his own initiative in the previous year and who feels that those who benefit from the newly introduced scheme are receiving an unfair advantage over the individual who took the real risk and did it himself . |
| 12 | I remembered them again when Tony Jacklin did the same thing at the very next Open — — and , amazingly , at the 17th again . |
| 13 | And he did the same thing at Brackley Town , he guided them to success , their best ever season , he 's gone to Buckingham Town , took a few players with him , so Brackley Town , they 're not too pleased and they 're going to be out to beat Buckingham Town tonight , but I 'm going to sit on the fence and go for Buckingham 3 1 . |
| 14 | California 's Apple Computer did the same thing in a bigger way last October , when it halved the price-tag on its popular Macintosh model . |
| 15 | All that crap about ‘ I do n't know why I lurv you but I do ’ was bollocks 'cos he then went and said the same things to the scum . |
| 16 | ( I once said the same thing to Will Shakespeare and , sure enough , it 's in one of his plays . |
| 17 | and you know and then they said the same thing to her they said come back next weekend and we 'll sort it out . |
| 18 | You 'd be black yourself , Stephen , if someone said the same thing about Kate . " |
| 19 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
| 20 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 21 | Although there is considerable value in the notion that Paisley 's political movement always consisted of two elements in tension — rural evangelicals and urban ‘ secular ’ Protestants — it is also the case that many evangelicals could be quite pragmatic and recognize that the preservation of things which they valued because of their religious beliefs required them to work in alliance with others who wanted the same things for different reasons . |
| 22 | She always wanted the same things after a fight — ham on rye with mustard , followed by vanilla ice cream with walnut topping , a large slab of cake and coffee . |
| 23 | ‘ I suggested the same thing to every other member of the backroom staff as I appointed them and they all agreed . |