Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [art] same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can imagine the expulsion to Earth ( of Melkor ) and the expulsion to Middle-earth ( of Galadriel ) coming , in a mind like Éomer 's , to seem much the same thing . |
| 2 | Like the French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars , used to do exactly the same thing . |
| 3 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 4 | And er if if it 's appropriate for North Yorkshire to apply environmental constraints within the whole of its area , I 'm not talking about particular districts but in in the whole of its area , then it is appropriate for Leeds and Bradford and the metropolitan districts to do exactly the same thing . |
| 5 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 6 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
| 7 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
| 8 | Laughing and laughin' or [ ga:d ] and [ go:d ] can more convincingly be shown to be used to say referentially the same thing than any pair of postulated synonymous syntactic constructions such as the liquor store was broken into versus they broke into the liquor store . |