Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 2 | I would like to see the same thing happen to them . ’ |
| 3 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 4 | For the er we 'd really like to do the same thing for the whole weapons system with Eurofighter also but the the premium that eurofighter might demand to cover the risk . |
| 5 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
| 6 | Why d' you keep saying the same things . |
| 7 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 8 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 9 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 12 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 13 | ‘ Sure there 's plenty of people must have said the same thing after a visit from you , love . |
| 14 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 15 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 16 | ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have thought the same thing would apply to you , ’ she said , evading a direct answer . |
| 18 | but you should have got the same thing from them . |
| 19 | Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . |
| 20 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 21 | Give the lack of resources and expertise in state organisations , one can not help thinking the same thing about this new initiative . |