Example sentences of "exactly the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He reminded the House that the police had been given forty-eight hours notification of the proposed route : ‘ Honourable members on this side of the House who in this respect are charging him [ Paisley ] with gross civic and social irresponsibility must also charge the police with exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 3 | I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings . |
| 4 | As far as we are concerned it is exactly the same thing , ’ says Mike Stock . |
| 5 | Exactly the same thing had happened in pop music and now it happened to art — hype , control , block-buying . |
| 6 | If , after a stiff swig of nectar , we were to watch further developments , we 'd find that in another 100,000 years or so , or even longer , exactly the same thing would happen again , and the compass would swing back suddenly to its original position . |
| 7 | I have also heard people involved in the Animal Rights Movement argue exactly the same thing the other way round ! |
| 8 | In fact , as I have developed this chapter , I realise that within the definition I am using they are exactly the same thing . |
| 9 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 10 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
| 11 | I realize that there may well be seven others doing exactly the same thing , but I believe that God will help the most sincere and the most deserving . |
| 12 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 13 | ‘ Almost all instruments do exactly the same thing . |
| 14 | And are n't these Encore guitars exactly the same thing ? |
| 15 | Curiously , 11 months earlier , exactly the same thing happened in Trento to a poacher called Giacomo Montara , aged 40 ( Daily Star , 29 September ; Weekly News , 13 October 1990 ) . |
| 16 | Charles has exactly the same thing . |
| 17 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ His people are justifiably condemning Riddick Bowe for flouting the rules , but they are doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 20 | As Brumfit observes , ‘ Being a good teacher is never exactly the same thing as understanding teaching ; there are many things we can do well that we can not fully understand . ’ |
| 21 | I have a large Gyrinocheilus aymonieri which does exactly the same thing . |
| 22 | ‘ I did exactly the same thing last year in LA , ’ he revealed . |
| 23 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 24 | When the second prisoner was brought out , he placed his head on the block and exactly the same thing happened . |
| 25 | It just gives me hope that there are huge groups of people that feel exactly the same thing . |
| 26 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 28 | DEC and Microsoft said that they expect NT-on-Alpha , which they are jointly engineering , to be a high-volume , multi-sourced platform for users , software developers , systems designers and chip manufacturers — exactly the same thing ACE was supposed to be . |
| 29 | Like the French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars , used to do exactly the same thing . |
| 30 | I never did anything and I never played with children when I was a child because I did n't want to play with peasants on the estate , so I never did anything except sketching , painting and reading , and I 'm still doing pretty well exactly the same thing , and learning languages . |