Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America 's case that should amount to the same thing . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect it 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ Zen told him as they shook hands . |
| 3 | ‘ It 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ he 'd told Luciano Bartocci . |
| 4 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 5 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 6 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |
| 7 | Two sets of words may amount to the same thing , but one set may be caught by the Act and another set not . |
| 8 | And literature will amount to the same thing : all writers are copycats . |
| 9 | ( If say something is ‘ yours ’ you will say of the same thing that it is ‘ ours ’ when you refer to it ) . |
| 10 | Obviously lawyers will deal with the whole thing . |
| 11 | So let's start with the first thing . |
| 12 | Now let's turn to the other thing you could have done ( look at the left hand column ) , play the COOPERATE card . |
| 13 | Almost 1,000 students will be voting , though the result may differ from the real thing tomorrow four years ago the school ‘ elected ’ Michael Dukakis . |
| 14 | I 've I 've have been given notice that there is one proposed amendment which I intend to call now because then we can vote on the whole thing |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're still in the area , you can come to the whole thing ! ’ she grinned . |
| 16 | Fights between dogs can start over the smallest thing . |