Example sentences of "make exactly [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before .
2 His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement .
3 They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before .
4 He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’
5 I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else .
6 On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped .
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