Example sentences of "down [prep] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
| 2 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
| 3 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 4 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 5 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |