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Example sentences of "[verb] to say the [adj] thing " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion .
2	I was going to say the same thing .
3	Women 's sub also happened to say the same thing .
4	Even when he was being particularly careful not to offend , he seemed to manage to say the wrong thing .
5	We do have occasions where we 're having to say the same thing er over and over again , because nothing very much has happened .
6	This technique of free association , in which the patient is encouraged to say the first thing that comes to mind , reveals connotations of the dream image which might otherwise not have been obvious .
7	But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying .
8	Trying to say the right thing to calm things down or protect people 's feelings only brings more upset and confusion .
9	The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both .
10	They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example .