Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 2 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 3 | say basically the same thing ; that , as emperor , he has the power to do a lot of damage and that power can quickly corrupt men , however noble or good they seem to start off . |
| 4 | Charles has exactly the same thing . |
| 5 | I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings . |
| 6 | Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing . |
| 7 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 8 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 9 | The strange thing about these different ways of arranging the same information is that they all apparently mean exactly the same thing . |
| 10 | Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual . |
| 11 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 12 | One of the suffragan bishops , the Right Reverend Peter Vaughan , Bishop of Ramsbury since April 1989 , says rather the same thing more obliquely . |
| 13 | Because that , he did mention that he says so the next thing is the home 'll have to go . |
| 14 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 17 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 18 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 19 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 20 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 21 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 22 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 23 | Most of the letters are straightforward and written in plain English ; the type that you may spend bags of time perfecting — Have I said exactly the right thing ? |
| 24 | It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to . |
| 25 | With the dress ordered , church and reception booked , invitations sent and wedding lists prepared probably the last thing on your mind is YOU ! |
| 26 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 27 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 28 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 29 | Something must have told him that he 'd not said quite the right thing , for he looked at Zeinab uneasily afterwards . |
| 30 | Wood ( 1962 : 107-8 ) says almost the same thing : to can be omitted after help " only when the " helper " does some of the work , or shares in the activity jointly with the person that is helped " . |