Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the same thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 2 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 3 | I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings . |
| 4 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 5 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 6 | It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to . |
| 7 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 8 | Well , what observed exactly the same thing with , with baboons , and said to himself , why are these animals doing this ? |
| 9 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 10 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 11 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 12 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 13 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
| 14 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 16 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |