Example sentences of "[vb base] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the flops , the bums all eat the same thing . |
| 2 | always like , quite when they re repeat the same thing the week after . |
| 3 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 4 | Study the competition , the commercials and the advertisements of other manufacturers who make the same thing . |
| 5 | As a result , becoming an adult and setting up a household no longer mean the same thing . |
| 6 | As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing , it is reasonable to ask why we need both . |
| 7 | One might even extend the idea and talk of semantic parallelism where two sentences are linked because they mean the same thing . |
| 8 | Does topic mean the same thing as theme , that is , what the message is about ? |
| 9 | Essentially , these three names mean the same thing — ‘ a piece of software ’ — and only differ in terms of size and complexity . |
| 10 | If you do see a sign like that please , or any words that mean the same thing , like no refunds , no money refunded , no money refunded on sale goods any of those phrases , will you please let Trad your nearest Trading Standards Office know . |
| 11 | For some of the work auditory sequences are presented to investigate the question of whether auditory and visual temporal patterns mean the same thing to the infant . |
| 12 | Any one else want to make any comments about this , or can I move on to what is headed in Mr 's criteria , area of no market demand , and one in which we had described , and it may well be coincidental , mean the same thing , be in a location where people want to live . |
| 13 | a natural request erm th the Liberal Democrat one is much more workers and er , and er they mean the same thing , and I think I would er ask for this group er support er the second one rather than the first one . |
| 14 | Most of the Bank 's economists say that Africa 's performance has been disappointing not because the gospel is wrong , but because it has not been properly implemented ( Marxists , mind you , say the same thing about communism ) . |
| 15 | Ail the witnesses say the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | You always say the same thing . |
| 17 | ‘ Apparently she 's seen plenty of specialists and they all say the same thing — she 's blind because she refuses to see . ’ |
| 18 | I think that two and a eleven basically say the same thing in different in different ways . |
| 19 | I say the same thing |
| 20 | Oh yes , oh , the rangers say the same thing , do what you 've always done . |
| 21 | just like working in a factory — you dust the same thing every day and it 's never appreciated . |
| 22 | If measurements ten times more sensitive , already being planned , show the same thing , yet more radical ideas may be needed . |
| 23 | ‘ But if they still show the same thing we are all going to have to respond to it . |
| 24 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 25 | If you wear the same thing twice in the same situation you may give the impression that you have one safe set of clothes and that you are only immaculately turned out when relying on that one safe outfit . |
| 26 | Yes but I mean it 's like the lady said , I mean you get the same thing all the time . |
| 27 | Er , you know the same thing they tried down at |
| 28 | She sat down and began to pour out the tea and , her voice still quiet , she went on , ‘ I do n't suppose it 's really so bad for you , instructing or teaching , whatever it is you do , but in the Naafi , amidst the clatter — ’ she now looked at him and her words were spaced as she went on , ‘ and the chaff and the ribbing ; well , I sometimes think I have died and gone to hell , because that 's what I think hell must be like ; constant joking , especially when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again . ’ |
| 29 | In time and with an increasingly ageing population , I foresee the same thing happening here ; that when people feel the time has come for release , they will gather the family round them to say farewell and then with those they love most beside them , they will ask for and be handed , as their right , the means of self-deliverance . |
| 30 | You find the same thing in Yorkshire , here and there . ’ |