SN4 ""

No	Pattern	Freq
1	[verb] the [det] thing	611
2	[adv] the [det] thing	328
3	do the [det] thing	261
4	[prep] the [det] thing	245
5	[prep] the [det] thing	245
6	[adv] the [det] thing	232
7	[v-ing] the [det] thing	143
8	[be] the [det] thing	113
9	be the [det] thing	113
10	exactly the [det] thing	112
11	exactly the [det] thing	112
12	[vb base] the [det] thing	100
13	[vb infin] the [det] thing	99
14	[vb past] the [det] thing	94
15	say the [det] thing	93
16	[not/n't] the [det] thing	90
17	not the [det] thing	90
18	not the [det] thing	82
19	[conj] the [det] thing	81
20	[to-vb] the [det] thing	75
21	[is] the [det] thing	74
22	of the [det] thing	72
23	of the [det] thing	72
24	to the [det] thing	70
25	to the [det] thing	70
26	doing the [det] thing	65
27	[vb pp] the [det] thing	57
28	[coord] the [det] thing	51
29	's the [det] thing	44
30	[vb -s] the [det] thing	43