Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will then need to gather together the necessary things to make an application . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I would have trusted him to be here at this discussion and say much the same things other people here would be saying . |
| 4 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Charles has exactly the same thing . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you want exactly the same things she does , but you hide behind the pillars of your ice palace , pretending to be so unapproachable . |
| 8 | I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings . |
| 9 | Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We congratulate him on spelling out the good things that we shall be offering . |
| 12 | Do n't forget to let your old auntie know how the other things are progressing , but I 'm sure everything will work out just fine . ’ |
| 13 | Categories such as ‘ theatre and entertainment ’ or ‘ cinema and film ’ did not include quite the same things in 1987 as in 1961 , or not in the same proportions . |
| 14 | Well now we do n't Do you know where the other things are ? |
| 15 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 16 | The strange thing about these different ways of arranging the same information is that they all apparently mean exactly the same thing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 19 | One of the suffragan bishops , the Right Reverend Peter Vaughan , Bishop of Ramsbury since April 1989 , says rather the same thing more obliquely . |
| 20 | I 'd return home and do all the usual things that keep your sense of yourself — eat , play around with children , do my washing , telephone my nearest and dearest , talk late into the night with my hosts , have fantasies , pleasure myself . |
| 21 | The coronation seemed to last for hours , but I managed to say and do all the right things . |
| 22 | Because that , he did mention that he says so the next thing is the home 'll have to go . |
| 23 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 24 | I went to drama school having done all the correct things that drama students are supposed to ignore — like going to public school ( Wellington ) and dressing in conventional clothes . |
| 25 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 26 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 27 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 30 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |