Example sentences of "the [det] thing when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later you can do the same thing when walking along or when sitting in a car ( but only if you are the passenger please — do n't try it while driving ! ) |
| 2 | I 'm sure it wo n't have escaped your notice that you do the same thing when you want to run a DOS command , like DIR , COPY , CLS and so on . |
| 3 | THE DOCTOR : I feel the same thing when I 'm holding a syringe : the power to fuck up someone 's life . |
| 4 | We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between sexuality and civilization from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing , whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals . |
| 5 | We heard the same thing when the Labour Government introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970 . |
| 6 | It was the first big opera he 'd conducted and he just did n't know how to do that , how to pace himself Incidentally he did the same thing when we recorded Peter Grimes and Reggie had to come in and help finish the recording . |
| 7 | And I expect that same thing happens with the work related one , that because you 're never at work on your own , or hardly ever at work on your own , and the same thing when you started , you were n't ever on your own , you could say to people , am I doing it right . |
| 8 | But my sister said exactly the same thing when she began a lot of those new remedies . |