Example sentences of "[vb pp] for the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must be punished for the wicked thing you did ’ ( The Times , 15 September 1991 ) . |
| 2 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 3 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 4 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 5 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 6 | He 's never given enough clean clothes and he 's chastised for the slightest thing . |
| 7 | If you 're going to , if you 're going to be knocked for something , make sure you 're knocked for the right thing , that 's what you 're really saying . |
| 8 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 9 | Anyway it 's nice to know that no time has been wasted though I do n't imagine there will be much energy left for the Finer Things . |
| 10 | But the parody was mistaken for the real thing , and the songs made the charts . |
| 11 | John Hurst , the managing director of Deon who make a Ferrari Dino replica , has often had his cars mistaken for the real thing by owners of the genuine article . |
| 12 | If you take that home and read the small print , you 'll find you 're probably not covered for the very things that are going to go wrong . |
| 13 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |