Example sentences of "the same [noun] [prep] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the same type of thing but it 's |
| 2 | I think there 's been a lot , a lot of publicity for childline , now , but you are n't directly in , associated with childline Fjn Well , we 've had , no , we 've had to call ourselves children 's line because for er obvious reasons we ca n't call ourselves childline , but it is the same type of thing , er run in a similar way , not exactly the same of course er partly because we have n't got the money that childline er attracts . |
| 3 | Do you do anything special on a Sunday or do you eat the same kind of things as you eat a normal day ? |
| 4 | But apart from that incident , it was a great show and he did the same kind of thing in Seattle , Kansas City and the sort of cities in the Mid West where they had n't heard of him — it was too early — but Tony DeFries was as good as his word . |
| 5 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 6 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 7 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 8 | Do you see ah , th the pe , the boys and girls or the , the young people that you 're working with erm , having the same veering towards the same kind of thing , I mean , do you see pressures on on girls , towards achieving that perfect body in the way that you felt it yourself at one time . |
| 9 | Well china , pottery , bowls all the same kind of thing . |
| 10 | Is that the same kind of thing ? ’ |
| 11 | And erm I asked around to see if anyone else was interested in doing the same kind of thing . |
| 12 | I 've seen the same kind of thing in the Sorcery Chambers at Tara . |
| 13 | We can say the same kind of thing about improbabilities and miracles . |
| 14 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 15 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 16 | It 's the same for the provisions manager , they have the same kind of thing is n't it . |
| 17 | I mean it 's the same kind of thing is n't it ? |
| 18 | It 's not the same kind of thing though . |
| 19 | There 's patient questionnaires , complaints , da da , er ba la visitor inspections , complaints , patient questionnaire , there 's a basically all the same kind of thing , or relative survey . |
| 20 | I mean it 's not , it 's not the same kind of thing that we 've got , it 's a different kind of relationship cos he 's a different kind of person |
| 21 | It 's all the same kind of thing |
| 22 | She showed us one , she had a Christmas tree and she had er star and tha that was the same kind of thing it 's sort of |
| 23 | It was something I wanted to do , but i I did n't know that until it started to happen , and then with the removal business too it 's more or less the same kind of thing . |
| 24 | Now when one goes , there tends to be a sameness which can be a bit of a let down , that you find much the same kind of thing as you would find in a church in Brighton or Lewes going on in Naples , and I do n't know quite how long this will last . |
| 25 | As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , but nomes say the same sort of things , Thing . |
| 27 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 28 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 29 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 30 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |