Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] to the [adj] 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 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 5 | Well what do you think would happen to the poor things if left them in that water ? |
| 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 | Now let's turn to the other thing you could have done ( look at the left hand column ) , play the COOPERATE card . |
| 10 | There simply are such ‘ indicative ’ signs , and they are presented to us in sense-experience ; on their basis we can reason to the hidden things which they ‘ indicate ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 're still in the area , you can come to the whole thing ! ’ she grinned . |