Example sentences of "the same thing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I was upset by this development , ’ said one official , ‘ but then I realised that with so many places selling the same things either they would go bust or they would have to channel their efforts into other , more necessary things . ’ |
| 2 | Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres . |
| 3 | Are we not allowed to use the same things twice ? |
| 4 | We ca n't use the same things twice ? |
| 5 | They looked at the same things together as they walked through the ruins of Milan . |
| 6 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 7 | it 's the same thing today . |
| 8 | ‘ This bone is known as the ‘ femur ’ , ‘ Will ’ and ‘ shall ’ mean the same thing nowadays ’ ) . |
| 9 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 10 | The same thing probably applies to smaller communities compared with larger ones . |
| 11 | Of course , little bits of practice help ; but if a child goes on doing exactly the same thing just as incompetently every day for a month , or even three months , it does not necessarily mean that no progress is being made : it is , but inside , where you ca n't see it . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose we 'll be all thinking the same thing tonight , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 14 | They organised 12-car rallies around the Cambridge Fens , asking every local resident for permission to hold the event and then , when the snow caused the event to be called off , they did the same thing again . |
| 15 | Oh well , if she was unwise enough to come to tea , Gina was unlikely to try the same thing again . |
| 16 | Then he walked heavily on for a pace or two until his tracks merged with the cart-way , then he turned back along the ruts to the stream and did the same thing again , more lightly this time . |
| 17 | And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in . |
| 18 | But I am so fond of the people in A Wreath of Roses and have so lately re-read it , that I am perhaps tiresomely asking you to do the same thing again . |
| 19 | If I call you on the phone I 'll ring twice , put down the receiver , do the same thing again . |
| 20 | Now do the same thing again but this time split your turn into two smaller turns . |
| 21 | That would give him a week 's grace at least , and then he 'd do the same thing again in some other place to stay untraceable . |
| 22 | And she sits and she talks and she talks and she keeps repeating the same thing again . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's the same thing again , is n't it ? |
| 24 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 25 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 26 | ‘ We want the pair of them struck off to prevent them doing the same thing again , ’ he said . |
| 27 | An immediate halt to the Government 's Hospital Trust , sorry I 'm reading the same thing again . |
| 28 | If they did the same thing again to you ? |
| 29 | Do the same thing again . |
| 30 | He said he instantly dismissed Miss Dixon after she displayed a hostile attitude and claimed she might do the same thing again . |