Example sentences of "say that the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying that the same person thought of these two things at once , but |
| 2 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 3 | As I recall , the French poets of the late 19th century said that the same motivation lay behind their startling verse : they wanted to epater la bourgeoisie . |
| 4 | This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition . |
| 5 | Thus , while we follow with interest the supposedly dramatic variation from 2 feet to 10 feet to 39 feet of a certain zone along the English outcrop , we hardly bother with a footnote to say that the same zone in western Scotland is nearly 134 feet thick . |
| 6 | Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ? |
| 7 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |
| 8 | For example in the Meteorologica ( 339b27 ) he asserts : ‘ We must say that the same opinions have arisen among men in cycles , not once , twice , nor a few times , but infinitely often . ’ |