Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 5 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 8 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 9 | She had asked the same thing following the last two births , Hubert 's and Robin 's . |
| 10 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |