Example sentences of "[vb infin] say the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why d' you keep saying the same things . |
| 2 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 3 | George Brown might have said the same . |
| 4 | ‘ Sure there 's plenty of people must have said the same thing after a visit from you , love . |
| 5 | But time was when I would have said the same of you , ’ he added wryly , and took heart at hearing Hugh laugh , if only briefly and softly . |
| 6 | I 'm sure your father would have said the same . ’ |
| 7 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 8 | But then , you 'd have said the same about Crippen or Christie , would n't you ? |
| 9 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 10 | True — but can you imagine saying the same after a performance of Don Giovanni or Tchai 4 ? |