Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I make always the same thing , corsets etc . |
| 2 | ‘ I did exactly the same thing last year in LA , ’ he revealed . |
| 3 | yes , I had exactly the same thing , being a top flight secretary at work |
| 4 | But when I heard about the murder I wondered just the same thing . ’ |
| 5 | Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have a large Gyrinocheilus aymonieri which does exactly the same thing . |
| 8 | No , you do that line first then you do exactly the same thing again |
| 9 | Well you do exactly the same thing now , |
| 10 | And in a radio programme , you have exactly the same thing , it 's the first fifteen or twenty seconds which makes you decide ‘ Am I going to listen to this , or am I going to switch this off , and go out and make a cup of tea or take the dog for a walk ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 14 | Well , I , I said everybody 's said , everybody said exactly the same thing , they said what do you think of her ? |
| 15 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 16 | At the Brummel Club that evening , Ralph had n't changed his mind — he said exactly the same thing — after tonight 's gig you 're finished . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Well , what observed exactly the same thing with , with baboons , and said to himself , why are these animals doing this ? |
| 19 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |