Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Categories such as ‘ theatre and entertainment ’ or ‘ cinema and film ’ did not include quite the same things in 1987 as in 1961 , or not in the same proportions . |
| 2 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 4 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 5 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 6 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 7 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 8 | ‘ I was thinking I 'd like exactly the same thing , ’ she confessed , giving him a radiant smile . |
| 9 | We 'll meet here , on the same day , in two years ' time , at seven o'clock , and we 'll have exactly the same things to eat , and tell each other quite frankly in what ways we 've changed . |
| 10 | It does not matter if you do not have exactly the same things as are shown in the drawing ; alter the design to suit what you have . |
| 11 | But for the words italicised ‘ financial year ’ and ‘ accounting reference period ’ would mean exactly the same thing ; as it is they need not . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't say exactly the same thing every time , ’ he insists afterwards . |
| 13 | He 's he 's shot himself in the foot in one sense , because he does n't know what we 've said already , so he may come and say exactly the same thing that we 've been saying , in which case we will cheer and you will boo . |