Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 2 | It amounted to the same thing for him . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 4 | You see , it came from the same thing . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’ |
| 7 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |
| 8 | ‘ It comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | Distances getting longer , tape measures getting shorter — either way , it comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 10 | So it comes to the same thing . |
| 11 | The way in which this is worked out in law may be that it would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow the creditor under such circumstances to sue , or it may be , and I prefer that view , that there is an extinction of the debt ; but , whichever way it is put , it comes to the same thing , namely that , after acceptance by the creditor of a sum offered by a third party in settlement of the claim against the debtor , the creditor can not maintain an action for the balance … . |
| 12 | It , it comes to the same thing does n't it ? . |
| 13 | I think it comes to the same thing . |
| 14 | I think it comes to the same thing . |