Example sentences of "be [verb] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you build more prisons you 're doing the same thing , ’ the Governor said . |
| 2 | We 're doing the same thing here , we 've got a , a low resistance letting a lot of current in , letting a lot of current go through . |
| 3 | And if we 're doing the same thing , they 're gon na s sooner of later they 're gon na click and they 're gon na say , Well you know , that 's too much of a good thing like you know . |
| 4 | Because whatever er product area you work in then you 're doing the same thing as everybody else is . |
| 5 | And it looks like we 're doing the same thing , over and over , but we 've got one damned thing the phoenix never had . |
| 6 | I think we 're saying the same thing . |
| 7 | The original meaning , as defined by Collins , has certainly taken a mean whipping before re-release into this streetwise prose but we 're talking the same thing here , are n't we ? |
| 8 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 9 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 10 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 11 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |
| 12 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 13 | At first sight it may appear that all the children are doing the same thing but within each group allowance is made for ability and the children follow their own carefully planned programme at their own pace — this is updated regularly . |
| 14 | Each animal reacts individually to the movements of the prey and each benefits from the fact that her companions are doing the same thing . |
| 15 | In this way share prices are determined not by reference to estimations of fundamental value , but by a series of guesses about the behaviour of other market participants ; they result from ‘ [ s ] peculations on the speculations of other speculators who are doing the same thing ’ . |
| 16 | And this is happened all over the country , each area are doing the same thing and all of this this er produce this declaration of intent and ask the , the head of the er council to put it to their members and get the support of their members . |
| 17 | Erm we 're not always privy to what goes on with the front bench , but yes we have established regular dialogue with Jack Straw and the environment team , in order that we make sure we are saying the same thing . |
| 18 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 19 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 20 | with the first and last of course are gon na be called the same thing . |
| 21 | Unfortunately everyone else will be doing the same thing and if one end is blatantly favoured then it is likely to be crowded . |
| 22 | Like Novell Inc , which appears to be doing the same thing ( UX No 413 ) , WordPerfect reportedly has big-time legal beagles at its beck and call . |
| 23 | Yes in theory we should be doing the same thing |
| 24 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 25 | If Steve 's going to have electric aerial he 'll be doing the same thing . |
| 26 | ‘ At the moment , there 's insufficient evidence to arrest anyone , ’ said Harris quietly , ‘ and if I thought you were keen on any of the other men in this case , I 'd be saying the same thing about them . ’ |
| 27 | Just just er just so I can be absolutely sure about that I think I 'm say I 'm asking the same thing that the senior inspector 's just asked . |
| 28 | An immediate halt to the Government 's Hospital Trust , sorry I 'm reading the same thing again . |
| 29 | Not all of them would be learning the same thing , parrot-fashion , up and down the country . |
| 30 | However , it is inefficient from a user 's point of view to leave course assessment to suppliers ( who will not necessarily be assessing the same thing as users ) , and inappropriate to expect individual users to be able to evaluate courses within any framework other than their own needs . |