Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
| 2 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
| 3 | Laughing and laughin' or [ ga:d ] and [ go:d ] can more convincingly be shown to be used to say referentially the same thing than any pair of postulated synonymous syntactic constructions such as the liquor store was broken into versus they broke into the liquor store . |
| 4 | We are beginning to see how the whole thing fits together and again , I think , we are beginning to see a somewhat " catastrophic " picture . |
| 5 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
| 6 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 7 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |