Example sentences of "the [det] thing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 2 | His colleague Fleming 's humiliation on horseback had made him dread the same thing for himself . |
| 3 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 4 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 6 | It amounted to the same thing for him . |
| 7 | Naturally the poem does not mean the same thing for him as for Bilbo . |
| 8 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 9 | This expands the availability of shapes and patterns even further , because the basic Form Computer and its programs are one and the same thing for both makes of machine — Passap System and Singer System . |
| 10 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 11 | If you can afford a magic standard then you can use this to increase the leadership or add to your combat result which amounts to the same thing for the all important break test . |
| 12 | He 's also talking about adjusting the company 's prices upwards because it 's silly to change the same thing for one or hundred users . |
| 13 | This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough . |
| 14 | Can we do the same thing for the magnetic quantities ? |
| 15 | Well Kerry 's going to do the same thing for twenty four . |
| 16 | They probably do the same thing for pleasure in the Lake District every summer . |
| 17 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |
| 18 | I mean er you , this is , this is your point really to what extent other other characteristics er may erm may be part of the same erm of the same thing for example if , look at sexual dimorphism . |
| 19 | For the er we 'd really like to do the same thing for the whole weapons system with Eurofighter also but the the premium that eurofighter might demand to cover the risk . |
| 20 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 21 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 22 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
| 23 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 24 | would be grate , okay , and the same thing for next page , this is the day I started which , like maybe tomorrow or next day or when ever you start it Wednesday , I started at ten o'clock in the morning , was I , I was in Woking , what was I doing nothing just reading a , do whatever you have to put in your whatever you , |
| 25 | You can do the same thing for any of the others , so however man many sides you want , |