Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America 's case that should amount to the same thing . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect it 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ Zen told him as they shook hands . |
| 3 | ‘ It 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ he 'd told Luciano Bartocci . |
| 4 | ‘ The next day she would always phone to say that she had been in and she 'd pick on a few things that she was n't quite happy with . ’ |
| 5 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 6 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |
| 7 | Two sets of words may amount to the same thing , but one set may be caught by the Act and another set not . |
| 8 | And literature will amount to the same thing : all writers are copycats . |
| 9 | ( If say something is ‘ yours ’ you will say of the same thing that it is ‘ ours ’ when you refer to it ) . |
| 10 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |