Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 2 | Paintings which describe the natural world are indeed easiest for the critic to describe , since any observer can compare an object seen with the same thing depicted . |
| 3 | that refusal of the creditor 's claim comes to the same thing as the extinction of the debt ? |
| 4 | This is not very far from the belief that pleasure and happiness amount to the same thing — a belief with deep flaws , as we saw in an earlier chapter . |
| 5 | The lack of either standard or system amounts to the same thing . |
| 6 | There is the statement-kind , thirdly , overlapping with the second , such that truth-value may be argued , to my mind unpersuasively , to depend on the inclusion of one particular referring expression , rather than another expression referring to the same thing . |