Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 ? |
| 33 | ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week . |
| 34 | ‘ I 'd have thought the same thing would apply to you , ’ she said , evading a direct answer . |
| 35 | but you should have got the same thing from them . |
| 36 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 37 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 38 | We do have occasions where we 're having to say the same thing er over and over again , because nothing very much has happened . |
| 39 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 40 | Four years after a deaf , blind mentally handicapped woman was found dead in the squalor of her own home , a new register has been launched that hopes to stop the same thing ever happening again . |
| 41 | If I try to enter the same thing , it does n't work . |
| 42 | But I 've , what I 'm saying Rod is I 've done the same thing |
| 43 | They 've done the same thing . |
| 44 | It appears we 've done the same thing with the brick and the flints . |
| 45 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 46 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 47 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 48 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 49 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 50 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 51 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 52 | resources and her own houses in America , and I 've got the same thing here . |
| 53 | Could you look also please at page fifty six in the same tag which is home which was forty nine , it carries on to fifty six , we can see there you 've got the same thing but you 've got a drawing there and not a photograph of something that 's in the area , Court Castle in Dorset |
| 54 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 55 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 56 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 57 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 58 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 59 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 60 | and you 've got to try and get round them , oh god , there 's about six thousand trying to do the same thing . |