Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , working with anybody , just just for just for a few minutes each it 's just because what I want you to experience is what it 's like to continually go over the same thing , I want you to experience that , to continually stick to your guns just experience that okay ? |
| 2 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |
| 3 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 4 | We may contrast with this the phrase semantic components , where the two interpretations are virtually indistinguishable ; it will be seen that this phrase will always come to the same thing in practical terms , whether we regard the components as being semantic , with ascriptive use of the adjective , or as components connected with semantics , taking the associative interpretation . |
| 5 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect it 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ Zen told him as they shook hands . |
| 7 | ‘ It 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ he 'd told Luciano Bartocci . |
| 8 | And literature will amount to the same thing : all writers are copycats . |
| 9 | In America 's case that should amount to the same thing . |
| 10 | Two sets of words may amount to the same thing , but one set may be caught by the Act and another set not . |
| 11 | ( If say something is ‘ yours ’ you will say of the same thing that it is ‘ ours ’ when you refer to it ) . |