Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe you should do the same thing . ’ |
| 2 | One solution is to assume that , since all men are in their most basic attributes ultimately alike and use similar mental processes , then they must mean the same things when they employ the same symbols and metaphors . |
| 3 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 4 | At least your writing to us may prevent the same thing happening to another reader . |
| 5 | However , someone seeing you may do the same thing using a crude ‘ dead man ’ to hold the fuselage upright . |
| 6 | John Coffin , she felt sure , would not ; he might think the same things , but would not say them in that way . |
| 7 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 8 | By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing . |
| 9 | He said he instantly dismissed Miss Dixon after she displayed a hostile attitude and claimed she might do the same thing again . |
| 10 | Do you think , you see you 've got to get another bloke and bloody great , he 'll do the same thing . |
| 11 | The same as , I , them that buys our 'ouse , they 'll have to pay whatever it cost for 'em to value our 'ouse , see if it 's worth lending money , we 'll have the same thing with er bungalow , down there . |
| 12 | The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 13 | I 've told her dad to sit because people might get the same thing . |
| 14 | And you 'll find the same thing but with a co , in two columns . |
| 15 | Ask anyone who 's had anything to do with pen computers and , unless they 're trying to sell you one , they 'll say the same thing . |
| 16 | ‘ I might ask the same thing of you … ’ |
| 17 | That would give him a week 's grace at least , and then he 'd do the same thing again in some other place to stay untraceable . |
| 18 | One could do the same thing with ‘ unicorn ’ , which has sense but no verifiable reference . |
| 19 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 20 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 21 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 22 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 23 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 24 | Theoretically , bats could do the same thing , but dolphins seem more likely candidates because they are in general more social . |
| 25 | ‘ I could ask the same thing of you , ’ she countered crisply . |
| 26 | ‘ I could say the same thing to you about a photograph of Svend ! ’ |
| 27 | Two people may analyse the same thing in a different way . |
| 28 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 29 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 30 | ‘ You 're confident your father would say the same thing ? ’ |