Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 2 | Study the competition , the commercials and the advertisements of other manufacturers who make the same thing . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I suffered through a class on American nineteenth-century poetry with a professor who did the same thing . ’ |
| 4 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 5 | I met many + tenants on similar estates who do the same thing — their heating amounts to " taking the nip out of the air " and putting on cardigans to go into the bathroom or kitchen . |
| 6 | Every lesson he repeated the same thing over and over again . |
| 7 | No doubt you tried the same thing with him — implying that we 'd got along rather better than we ought to have ? ’ |