Example sentences of "[v-ing] the same thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann said they kept both wanting the same thing at the same time . |
| 2 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 5 | He came to the conclusion , as he puts it , ‘ that the eternal world is trivial , and that mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words . ’ |
| 6 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 7 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 8 | I remembered my own boyhood watching cavalrymen sticking tent pegs at the gymkhanas , and tried knights on shining white chargers , complete with shining white bascinets , breastplates , leg armour and gauntlets doing the same thing to my inside , but they never really filled the role . |
| 9 | She then made a most offensive and denigrating remark about my practice , and is probably doing the same thing to everyone else here . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 12 | Look , we 're all doing the same thing at different |
| 13 | All doing the same thing with all with the same earning potential . |
| 14 | They 's doing the same thing outside your flat . |
| 15 | Holding a length of silk in its beak , it then pierces a hole in the leaf and pushes the silk through it , tying a little knot in the end to prevent the thread from slipping back through the hole and then doing the same thing on the other side so that the two leaf surfaces are secured to one another . |
| 16 | ‘ There will be a few candidates for doing the same thing in this part of the world if he gets away with it , ’ one Welsh international said , ‘ and I for one will be very interested to see how it develops . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the two British entries , Richardson and Hynds , worked together to take a substantial win in men 's K1 with Hemmings and Gilby doing the same thing in the ladies ' K1 event in a field of only three . |
| 18 | While the prospect of cycling through York is attractive the idea of doing the same thing in Newcastle or Middlesbrough does not have quite the same allure . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But in essence we are erm all of the sales er marketing execs are discussing the same thing with whichever organization . |
| 22 | Give the lack of resources and expertise in state organisations , one can not help thinking the same thing about this new initiative . |