Example sentences of "the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 2 | And as you ladies and gentlemen now are thinking of retiring as I have done the least thing you want to be bothered about is rules and regulations . |
| 3 | The least thing upsets her and she frequently strikes out at me . |
| 4 | Get you to answer , that 's the least thing |
| 5 | Well do it , see the light there , the that thing |
| 6 | One of the another thing that I remember when I was in er they come to the er delegate meeting in June . |
| 7 | This is the this thing |
| 8 | You know like like the this thing about every soldier having a a a field marshall 's baton in his knapsack . |
| 9 | ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk . |
| 10 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 11 | One of the few things that keeps movies worth watching is the vitality of all the marvellous comedians from Saturday Night Live and SCTV : Bill Murray , John Candy and so on , terrific personalities who can bring a vibrancy even to dead scripts . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have already packed the few things to which she is entitled , in a small box . |
| 13 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 14 | These days they appear infrequently , but the prospect of a shopping expedition is one of the few things that are guaranteed to bring them out . |
| 15 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 16 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 17 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 18 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 19 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
| 20 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 21 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 22 | Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at . |
| 23 | One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving . |
| 24 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 25 | Schmidt looked through the few things she brought out . |
| 26 | Culley was still ordering the information she 'd given him , and the few things Helen had said on the phone . |
| 27 | ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 28 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If you wear that , ’ he said curtly , ‘ you 'll destroy one of the few things your father possessed . |
| 30 | Of course , these are not the abilities which we pride ourselves upon , and we are much more likely to be impressed by the few things which computers do well which we do badly . |