Example sentences of "the [det] thing at the " in BNC.

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1 I remembered them again when Tony Jacklin did the same thing at the very next Open — — and , amazingly , at the 17th again .
2 An eight-year-old child does not learn the same thing at the same speed as a five-year-old child .
3 At the end of each week you can then add up your total time and compare your planned and achieved time to measure your progress ; and you can do the same thing at the end of 30 days .
4 When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ .
5 Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery .
6 I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time .
7 As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time .
8 But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent .
9 Ann said they kept both wanting the same thing at the same time .
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