Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 2 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 3 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 4 | has experienced the same thing as we all have . |
| 5 | And she sits and she talks and she talks and she keeps repeating the same thing again . |
| 6 | Four years after a deaf , blind mentally handicapped woman was found dead in the squalor of her own home , a new register has been launched that hopes to stop the same thing ever happening again . |
| 7 | Well there 's a contrast in personality and you do n't really know whether anybody 's got the same thing because nobody 's narrowed it down |