Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in a sense , he actually very neatly defined several different points without getting his knickers in a twist , and wearing different hats it would be so easy to come out with a muddled thing which would end up by being him feeling uncomfortable but him also being part of the Government and the Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 2 | Lee was prodding at the hide with a stick , Caspar leaping about like a mad thing . |
| 3 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
| 4 | Well why 's he got on like a big thing round his neck , a ruff . |
| 5 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 6 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 7 | It looked so like a dead thing . |
| 8 | In the Seventies , you know he looked just like a Funkadelic thing : the hair , the shirts , the parts , the shades . |
| 9 | The capitalist state is viewed functionally as a given thing , a pre-existing instrument possessed by the capitalist class , rather than as a historically emerging , changing and contradictory relation . |
| 10 | Caspar was jumping about like a mad thing . |
| 11 | Erm , right on the expenditure side we have our normal subscriptions for the year , A S erm the F B A S which you all know , there 's no strangers here who do n't know what these are the A L A and the Whale and Dolphin er Preservation Society which we have taken on as a personal thing in the , in the er name of the club because it 's cheaper |
| 12 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 13 | Quick to latch on to a good thing , the Taiwanese have already started to adopt the All Black style of play . |
| 14 | ‘ I always think they 're missing out on a good thing . |
| 15 | Theresa are we not are we not missing out with this legislation are we not missing out on a little thing called compassion ? |
| 16 | The , it was officially launched in London yesterday at Ken 's House , unfortunately neither of the two officer 's could go , it was rather short notice , but it has been officially launched now as a national thing . |