Example sentences of "things [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went out on their own with girls , they tended to fix things for the same evening so as not to spend two nights separated where one would do . |
| 2 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 3 | If the meaning of an utterance does not wholly reside in the semantic meaning , and if people can mean quite different things with the same words , how do human beings interpret — usually quite accurately — what is meant from what is said ? |
| 4 | In his words the global corporation ‘ sells the same things in the same way everywhere ’ . |
| 5 | I say we , for I feel that you look on things in the same way … |
| 6 | They will probably not see things in the same way as you do . |
| 7 | Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way . |
| 8 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 9 | The answer was to sell other things in the same style : china , lighting , textiles , rugs and kitchenware . |
| 10 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 11 | Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room . |
| 12 | There is however a problem , if one is trying to do both these things at the same time . |
| 13 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 14 | Is it a pure contradiction to affirm both these things at the same time ? |
| 15 | I felt I had won several different things at the same time , including my war against the Portuguese Federation . |
| 16 | When I 'm drinking a glass of water , I 'm drinking a glass of water and not thinking about five other things at the same time . |
| 17 | Still others , being English , feel both things at the same time . |
| 18 | They smiled into each other 's faces , pointing to the same things at the same time , sharing . |
| 19 | Perhaps he was thinking of other things at the same time . |
| 20 | I felt two different things at the same time . |
| 21 | She never ceased to amaze Dexter with her ability to do several things at the same time — perhaps too many things , he thought , regarding her dishevelled hair and the flush of stress in her cheeks . |
| 22 | An electoral chain of command pushes orders up so that the people control things at the same time as those in authority are responsible down to the people or to the government of the people . |
| 23 | You will otherwise feel frustrated if you try to tackle different things at the same time . |
| 24 | It 's very difficult to do er two things at the same time . |
| 25 | There was a slight air of confusion as people rushed around trying to do three things at the same time . |