Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
| 2 | ‘ You have to go through your egocentricities , you have to become so absorbed by the whole thing until you reach the point where you say , ‘ No , get those sequins away from me ! |
| 3 | Both of these methods will be discussed briefly , but it 's important to remember that any particular grouping should only be applied to individual recognizable phases of an eruption , and that it does n't necessarily apply to the whole thing . |
| 4 | In discussing the various types of eruption that are generally recognized , it was emphasized that labels such as ‘ Strombolian ’ or ‘ Plinian ’ should only be applied to recognizable phases of an eruption ; they may not necessarily apply to the whole thing . |
| 5 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 6 | California tends to be expensive , offering little saving on the real thing . |
| 7 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 8 | By which time you 're not listening to the other things they 're saying . |
| 9 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 10 | Programming trends that encourage people to watch rather than live reality might not sound like the healthiest thing for Americans , who on average already waste nine years of their lives — about four hours a day — in front of the tube . |
| 11 | I 've just thought of the perfect thing to lend you . ’ |
| 12 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |
| 13 | On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave . |
| 14 | She shivered in her lavendered sheets , imploring herself to rest , trying not to think of the dreadful thing Finn had said . |
| 15 | No , I 'm not talking about the lost things . |
| 16 | I need time and space not just to get over the appalling things which have happened to me in which you do not seem to show much interest but also to think through where the two of us are at . |
| 17 | If you take that home and read the small print , you 'll find you 're probably not covered for the very things that are going to go wrong . |
| 18 | I 'm always looking for the positive thing in any situation . |
| 19 | Pure democracy has never worked : it works in a moderated form where there is a literacy qualification , or a property-owning qualification — which usually amounts to the same thing — and the voter is capable of making an informed judgement . |
| 20 | And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony . |
| 21 | Erm , like getting to the right thing |
| 22 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 23 | In some parts of the country spur and snag can mean the same thing , and in others have quite different meanings — but they are still caused by the same thing : bad pruning . |
| 24 | We may contrast with this the phrase semantic components , where the two interpretations are virtually indistinguishable ; it will be seen that this phrase will always come to the same thing in practical terms , whether we regard the components as being semantic , with ascriptive use of the adjective , or as components connected with semantics , taking the associative interpretation . |
| 25 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 26 | But 70-year-old Mr Lowes , who unearthed the historic treasures while searching for lost tools on Home Farm , at Hoxne , Suffolk last November , is totally relaxed about the whole thing . |
| 27 | And I am terribly bored by my colleagues in art history , who always write about the same thing . |
| 28 | and which angle we work with it still come to the same thing . |
| 29 | When making a contract be sure that you are both talking about the same thing . |
| 30 | Always in a dream , cut off from the world — and forever being dreadfully wounded over the slightest thing . |