Example sentences of "[to-vb] the same thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 2 | The same principle , looked at from its negative side , may be thus stated : There is no person or body of persons who can , under the English constitution , make rules which override or derogate from an Act of Parliament , or which ( to express the same thing in other words ) will be enforced by the courts in contravention of an Act of Parliament . |
| 3 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 4 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 5 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 6 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
| 7 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 8 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 9 | This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough . |
| 10 | Well Kerry 's going to do the same thing for twenty four . |
| 11 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |
| 12 | For the er we 'd really like to do the same thing for the whole weapons system with Eurofighter also but the the premium that eurofighter might demand to cover the risk . |
| 13 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 14 | He 's also talking about adjusting the company 's prices upwards because it 's silly to change the same thing for one or hundred users . |
| 15 | He would hardly be likely to say the same thing about Kylie . |
| 16 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 17 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 18 | soc : And I suppose you 'd like more of the same so you can go on pinpointing variation and replicate the studies which have been done to show the same thing in different places , or maybe to include a few more explanatory variables in your statistical model ? |