Example sentences of "come [prep] the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe . |
| 2 | Well this er came through the same thing , the Youth Hostels Association , we had a visit from Gyp some German ones who did m play reading in hostels , and er some of ours went back there , and the Youth Hostels Associations , they had a play reading group , and er I joined that . |
| 3 | You see , it came from the same thing . |
| 4 | In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 6 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |
| 7 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I expect it 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ Zen told him as they shook hands . |
| 11 | ‘ It 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ he 'd told Luciano Bartocci . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you were only interested in certain-death scenarios and fighting Daleks which come to the same thing . ’ |
| 13 | and which angle we work with it still come to the same thing . |
| 14 | They dug up an old catalogue reference to it : it seems to be that honest banking practice and churchgoing come to the same thing ungodly Marxism leads to phoney exchange rates . ’ |
| 15 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 16 | He now wishes he had used the phrase ‘ cycles of disadvantage ’ instead , though it all comes to the same thing — when poverty is perpetuated through family patterns , generation after generation . |
| 17 | ‘ It comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 18 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 19 | Distances getting longer , tape measures getting shorter — either way , it comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 20 | So it does n't matter which way you do it whether you get four twelfths , two sixths , or one third , they 're all the same they all comes to the same thing . |
| 21 | The public purse would not get anything ; after all , it all comes to the same thing . |
| 22 | So it comes to the same thing . |
| 23 | The way in which this is worked out in law may be that it would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow the creditor under such circumstances to sue , or it may be , and I prefer that view , that there is an extinction of the debt ; but , whichever way it is put , it comes to the same thing , namely that , after acceptance by the creditor of a sum offered by a third party in settlement of the claim against the debtor , the creditor can not maintain an action for the balance … . |
| 24 | that refusal of the creditor 's claim comes to the same thing as the extinction of the debt ? |
| 25 | Or what comes to the same thing judges changed their minds about what aspects or features of past decisions they were required to follow . |
| 26 | It , it comes to the same thing does n't it ? . |
| 27 | I think it comes to the same thing . |
| 28 | I think it comes to the same thing . |