Example sentences of "[vb -s] a thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Without Walls might be more fittingly titled Without Arts , the BBC2 equivalent , Arena , has a thing about promoting unknown artists who disappear forever as soon as their hour on screen is done . |
| 2 | ‘ Robyn has a thing about water , Melissa , ’ Luke explained . |
| 3 | Tracy has a thing I can only describe as Non-specific pain . |
| 4 | assembly hall has a , has a thing , but |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't really think that has a thing to do with what you wear or what you have on your face , do you ? ’ |
| 6 | Here we are each year we have a huge celebration of the devil and nobody says a thing . |
| 7 | when he grabs a thing , he really goes |
| 8 | SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment . |
| 9 | Certainly there is no trick to it , for the oftener one plays a thing through , the better it goes , and even the poorest conductors profit from this . |
| 10 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 11 | To the majority of performers , cash advances of any substance were a rarity , contracts a thing only of myth . |
| 12 | If he puts a thing in a box , it means you really have got to read this , and worry about it , but I think he 's fairly happy with the progress on police training and police communication arrangements . |
| 13 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 14 | The headache of having to keep abreast of statutory changes from the Inland Revenue and Department of Social Security becomes a thing of the past . |
| 15 | But once a job becomes a series of chances with restrictions built in , all of what we struggled for becomes a thing of the past . |
| 16 | He never forgets a thing does he ? |
| 17 | If he believes a thing harmful , he must not support it ; if he thinks it unjust he must denounce it . |
| 18 | In his third ‘ defension ’ from August 19 , 1538 , he declared ‘ Everything is a poison , the dose alone makes a thing not a poison ’ . |
| 19 | The local MP happened to be Michael Heseltine , who knows a thing or two about campaigning . |
| 20 | He also knows a thing or two about golf . |
| 21 | Several pieces published nationally in recent months have commented on the ‘ discjunkie ’ / ‘ discophile ’ / ‘ recordophile ’ and hopefully I have some of their characteristics : ‘ respectable ’ / ‘ intelligent ’ / ‘ almost always male ’ / ‘ almost always over 30 ’ / ‘ looks like a solid member of the professional classes ’ / ‘ knows a thing or two about wine ’ / ‘ videos obscure foreign films on Channel 4 ’ etc . |
| 22 | Dave Wood was our 1991 Aquachamp and knows a thing or two about fish . |
| 23 | He 's been the club 's professional for 26 years and an amateur member before that so he knows a thing or two about the old place . |
| 24 | However , at heart he 's still a guitar playing singer , and someone who knows a thing or two about Vox AC30s … |
| 25 | THE great advantage of having a former chief secretary to the Treasury as transport secretary is that he knows a thing or two about raising money . |
| 26 | It is one of the 20 largest software companies in the US , its MS-DOS Fastback package is the industry standard and it knows a thing or two about distribution and support . |
| 27 | Certainly knows a thing or two , that chap . ’ |
| 28 | ( Uncle Warren knows a thing or two . ) |