Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 31 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 34 | 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 ? |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 37 | With the dress ordered , church and reception booked , invitations sent and wedding lists prepared probably the last thing on your mind is YOU ! |
| 38 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 42 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 43 | Something must have told him that he 'd not said quite the right thing , for he looked at Zeinab uneasily afterwards . |
| 44 | 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 " . |
| 45 | ‘ I make always the same thing , corsets etc . |
| 46 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 47 | Anyway , apparently , he was told exactly the same thing as I was told |
| 48 | ‘ I was thinking I 'd like exactly the same thing , ’ she confessed , giving him a radiant smile . |
| 49 | It is perfectly possible to go through a University career , satisfy the examiners , graduate in the splendour of the Great Hall , and leave as a Bristol graduate without ever once having thought how the whole thing has been organised . |
| 50 | We contemplate both the small things and the great realities , at times when it is very hard work , when we feel spiritually dry and unreceptive , or when we rejoice in God and receive his refreshment . |
| 51 | One can imagine the expulsion to Earth ( of Melkor ) and the expulsion to Middle-earth ( of Galadriel ) coming , in a mind like Éomer 's , to seem much the same thing . |
| 52 | So then you always get just the one thing before the decimal place . |
| 53 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 54 | Like the French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars , used to do exactly the same thing . |
| 55 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 56 | And er if if it 's appropriate for North Yorkshire to apply environmental constraints within the whole of its area , I 'm not talking about particular districts but in in the whole of its area , then it is appropriate for Leeds and Bradford and the metropolitan districts to do exactly the same thing . |
| 57 | Well , what observed exactly the same thing with , with baboons , and said to himself , why are these animals doing this ? |
| 58 | No wear erm wear yeah wear a tight dress and once you get in there so many other people are wearing exactly the same thing |
| 59 | Erm and and yeah an and we were thinking oh yeah we look really good and we go along and , but there 's so many other girls wearing exactly the same thing that you just blend in , you do n't you know what I mean ? |
| 60 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |