Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another tom did the same thing , supplying his female with food while she was unable to leave the nest during the first days after producing her litter . |
| 2 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 3 | We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing . |
| 4 | A common response to the claim that I am making about observation , supported by the kinds of examples I have utilized , is that observers viewing the same scene from the same place see the same thing but interpret what they see differently . |
| 5 | As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing , it is reasonable to ask why we need both . |
| 6 | But both the ancient emperor and the modern mystic observe the same thing — the obedience of faith and the stamp of personal conviction which are hallmarks of Christian discipleship . |
| 7 | ‘ I promise you , ’ she says , ‘ there is n't a woman who does n't come out of a bad divorce thinking the same thing . ’ |
| 8 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |