Example sentences of "[pers pn] have do the [det] thing " in BNC.
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1 | But I 've , what I 'm saying Rod is I 've done the same thing |
2 | And as you ladies and gentlemen now are thinking of retiring as I have done the least thing you want to be bothered about is rules and regulations . |
3 | It 's the monotony I do n't like — it 's repetitive and you have to do the same things each day . |
4 | And then you have to do the same thing again for the second line look |
5 | It appears we 've done the same thing with the brick and the flints . |
6 | No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field . |
7 | They 've done the same thing . |
8 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
9 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
10 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
11 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
12 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
13 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |