Example sentences of "have [vb pp] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 2 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 3 | has experienced the same thing as we all have . |
| 4 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 5 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 6 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 8 | 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 … ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | ‘ Sure there 's plenty of people must have said the same thing after a visit from you , love . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | ‘ . 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd have thought the same thing would apply to you , ’ she said , evading a direct answer . |
| 15 | but you should have got the same thing from them . |
| 16 | But I 've , what I 'm saying Rod is I 've done the same thing |
| 17 | They 've done the same thing . |
| 18 | It appears we 've done the same thing with the brick and the flints . |
| 19 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 20 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 21 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 22 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 23 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 24 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 25 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 26 | resources and her own houses in America , and I 've got the same thing here . |
| 27 | Could you look also please at page fifty six in the same tag which is home which was forty nine , it carries on to fifty six , we can see there you 've got the same thing but you 've got a drawing there and not a photograph of something that 's in the area , Court Castle in Dorset |
| 28 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 29 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 30 | She had asked the same thing following the last two births , Hubert 's and Robin 's . |