Example sentences of "[pron] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 2 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 3 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
| 4 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 5 | Just wan na call them the same things as you 're used to . |
| 6 | ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’ |
| 7 | The pagan philosophers have introduced cycles of time in which the same things are in the order of nature being restored and repeated , and have asserted that these whirlings of past and future ages will go on unceasingly … . |
| 8 | its the same thing |
| 9 | ‘ I might be asking you the same thing , my lord . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I might ask you the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I might ask you the same thing . |
| 12 | Probably tell you the same thing a different way . |
| 13 | ‘ I had thought to ask you the same thing . |
| 14 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 16 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |
| 17 | This is what he hoped for , and one the many things that tended to dispirit him was the fact that it was so little forthcoming . |
| 18 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 19 | Are they the same thing ? |
| 20 | Is it the same thing as what I have just called ‘ the country ’ ? |
| 21 | Is it the same thing ? |