Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 3 | But I get a woozy feeling when I watch them spoon away , and the plates , twenty or thirty of them — all fill up with the same thing … |
| 4 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 5 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 6 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 7 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 8 | Comes down to the same thing in the end . |
| 9 | It does n't matter , it comes out to the same thing . |