Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 2 | So when the Sergeant-Major asked me where I hoped to be posted eventually , I told him the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes ; this did n't surprise him as most British recruits said the same thing . |
| 3 | Another tom did the same thing , supplying his female with food while she was unable to leave the nest during the first days after producing her litter . |
| 4 | For some of the work auditory sequences are presented to investigate the question of whether auditory and visual temporal patterns mean the same thing to the infant . |
| 5 | Essentially , these three names mean the same thing — ‘ a piece of software ’ — and only differ in terms of size and complexity . |
| 6 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 7 | Atypical page might have looked like this : In task allocation , virtually all clients have the same thing ‘ done to ’ them at the same time . |
| 8 | Thirdly , in all the examples quoted here , there is a sense in which all observers see the same thing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such a taboo breaker is dangerous to the rest of the members of the society because they have strong unconscious desires to do the same thing . |
| 11 | We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing . |
| 12 | Three days later , three more officers did the same thing . |
| 13 | Do all parties use the same words to mean the same thing ( eg do management accounts include a balance sheet or cash flow statement ) ? |
| 14 | A common response to the claim that I am making about observation , supported by the kinds of examples I have utilized , is that observers viewing the same scene from the same place see the same thing but interpret what they see differently . |
| 15 | NBT audiences are ‘ not content to look at rows and rows of identical girls doing the same thing , ’ he maintains . |
| 16 | As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing , it is reasonable to ask why we need both . |
| 17 | I was n't too happy about getting down the rock-climb , but luckily there were two other fellows doing the same thing so we egged each other on . |
| 18 | But both the ancient emperor and the modern mystic observe the same thing — the obedience of faith and the stamp of personal conviction which are hallmarks of Christian discipleship . |
| 19 | ‘ I promise you , ’ she says , ‘ there is n't a woman who does n't come out of a bad divorce thinking the same thing . ’ |
| 20 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |