Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [det] thing " in BNC.
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1 | Those thoughts in themselves are sufficient to turn the occasion from a loving one into some sort of physical test — and of course the same thing happens again ; the man feels so tense and anxious that he is simply not able to perform sexually . |
2 | And of course the same thing applied with clothes and shoes , they always inspected the cleansiness and if your shoes had holes in or anything then once in a while there were new ones came in and y you were fitted out . |
3 | Is the training course the same thing as what John was on in as much he had to get through the training course to get a position ? |
4 | of course the same thing happens in Hatfield which is done within about a stones throw literally fifty yards of that field market and town centre and such like and it 's very unpopular . |
5 | They were given no votes or erm opportunities and of course the same thing will happen if and when the Parcelforce is sold off from the Post Office er there 's twenty thousand people there . |
6 | Was a TV programme the same thing whether it came to your set by satellite , by cable , by terrestrial transmitter or by videotape ? |
7 | It did of course no such thing . |
8 | They did of course no such thing for membership was on a voluntary basis and they only represented the local Councils who had sent them . |
9 | The next day the same thing happened again . |
10 | I 've talked about miocenia gravis ; there is it 's rarer cousin , the syndrome , which sometimes associates with carcinoma of the lung , and we have shown that this too is an auto-immune disease in which the lung cancer seems to precipitate the immune system into making an antibody against it , the tumour , and the because the tumour has on its surface the same thing as the nerve terminal , the antibody also binds to the nerve terminal and causes trouble there . |
11 | Is to be a king the same thing as to be the object of universal hate ? |
12 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
13 | The next morning the same thing happened and I still had n't the courage to tell her . |
14 | He should really start thinking about double-checking a few things . |
15 | you know there was something wrong I was sitting listening I mean I 'm not been involved when you were talking about the stock take somewhere along the line a few things have slipped because when you go back , in the days when I used to be morning stock takes , we used to before the event , you would nearly always have the counts done . |
16 | But do n't be fooled into thinking that a three-inch elephant in a fuchsia tutu prancing across the blade of your tie is in any way the same thing . |
17 | They told the inquest the same thing . |
18 | Each time a different man , each time the same things . |
19 | After all that , one of the arms fell off recently , reminding me of the time the same thing happened during a recording of Give Us A Clue . |
20 | Do they do this purposely cos that man 's just been sent to prison the same thing is n't it ? |
21 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
22 | In fact the same thing happens with deer . |
23 | To put that another way , there are reasons for thinking that what an econometric model builder might believe is a good estimate of the constant structure of the economy is in fact no such thing , but rather an estimate of a relationship or group of relationships which are dependent upon a particular policy regime . |