Example sentences of "[verb] that the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres . |
| 2 | How about erm the grim reaper called upon you ca n't do that the same thing as God smiled upon ? |
| 3 | Schools at present can see that the same thing might happen to them — particularly when local decisions can be made about levels of pay and when local purse-holding is deliberately distanced from the machinery of national funding . |
| 4 | The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes . |
| 5 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 6 | My first experience in going into tramcars er in , in Edinburgh anyway and I suppose that the same thing would have happened er in any country , just gone through the ravages of war , with blackouts and so forth . |
| 7 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |