Example sentences of "[vb -s] the same thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greene has Adonis refuse the goddess in Perimedes the Blacke-Smith in 1588 ; Spenser has the same thing in The Faerie Queene , and Marlowe in Hero and Leander . |
| 2 | He says the same thing about a range of measures , including the measures advocated by the Labour party , which would put many part-time women employees out of work . |
| 3 | Which means the same thing to me . |
| 4 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 5 | In his words the global corporation ‘ sells the same things in the same way everywhere ’ . |
| 6 | That done , he leans over to the other side and does the same thing with his other hand and foot so that both his palms and his soles are anointed with his pungent urine . |
| 7 | This year 's Pulitzer prizewinner play , ‘ Angels in America ’ , does the same thing on stage . |
| 8 | He grabs the top edge with his hands , thumps the face of the buttress several times with his feet and then does the same thing on the other side of the buttress with his hands before springing down to the ground . |