Example sentences of "have the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greene has Adonis refuse the goddess in Perimedes the Blacke-Smith in 1588 ; Spenser has the same thing in The Faerie Queene , and Marlowe in Hero and Leander . |
| 2 | The letter always has the same thing to say . |
| 3 | and it always has the same thing |
| 4 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 5 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 6 | The same as , I , them that buys our 'ouse , they 'll have to pay whatever it cost for 'em to value our 'ouse , see if it 's worth lending money , we 'll have the same thing with er bungalow , down there . |
| 7 | I was petrified of having the same thing as my mother did . |
| 8 | Martina 's having the same thing done . |
| 9 | In our youth , the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies , we had the same thing , only we were the generation who were going to change the world . |
| 10 | Erm e e they 're all individual and mine I think , looking back , was erm erm er a light er experience and I mean as I 've said , the the erm er w this telescope they shove up you , er I mean , Chris Patton had the same thing . |
| 11 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 12 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 13 | she had the same thing done erm last year |
| 14 | And and there 's , the more money you had the more things you would buy , so the more VAT you 'd pay ? |
| 15 | You look forward to your meals very much , and I think you must have a cook with imagination because I know sometimes you have the same thing constantly and you get very bored by it . |
| 16 | Atypical page might have looked like this : In task allocation , virtually all clients have the same thing ‘ done to ’ them at the same time . |
| 17 | It 's absolutely extraordinary , you know , that every day here I 'm sure you have the same thing in France if you listen to the radio , every day there 's a sermon , something about hope of life hereafter . |
| 18 | And they rang up , and they said were sending you a list of what we expect to be available in the way of food at Christmas because we always have the same thing . |
| 19 | You know they all have the same thing . |
| 20 | Will you agree that we do that , rather than have the same thing coming up time after time . |