Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 2 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 3 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 4 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 5 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 6 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 7 | Yes , erm , going back to the original thing that brought this up , that we should descry people from using Nestlé 's products , erm , in fact implications will be quite wide , because they now own Rowntrees , and they own Cross and Blackwells , and they own all sorts of other companies . |
| 8 | In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past . |
| 9 | All steamed up over the real thing . |
| 10 | If we 're having a training session and they feel something 's not going right , I want them to say so , to get it sorted out and get on to the next thing . |
| 11 | But this idea of ‘ purity ’ as something that needs preserving , by others , and for others , is quite different from a purity which needs finding , indeed which must be searched for , struggled for , hunted down as the precious thing it is . |
| 12 | But I get a woozy feeling when I watch them spoon away , and the plates , twenty or thirty of them — all fill up with the same thing … |
| 13 | There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form . |
| 14 | After all , I do n't see why Jennifer should miss out on the one thing she 's actually looking forward to just because of him . ’ |
| 15 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 16 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 17 | Also , I learned to appreciate that as a critic you say what you have to say and go on to the next thing in LA you never go on to the next thing . ’ |
| 18 | Shall we go on to the next thing ? |
| 19 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 20 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 21 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 22 | Also , I learned to appreciate that as a critic you say what you have to say and go on to the next thing in LA you never go on to the next thing . ’ |
| 23 | A clenched fist , a frosty stare or a head-thrust , feet-planted , arms-akimbo posture , being recognizable as proper parts or adjuncts to acts of real violence , can stand in for the real thing in the ritualized ‘ aggression ’ to be described in a later chapter of this book . |
| 24 | If things go badly , I move on to the next thing and do n't beat myself up |
| 25 | We eat , we enjoy it or not as the case may be , and move on to the next thing . |
| 26 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 27 | for the sake of the museums otherwise they would be t probably passed off as the real thing . |
| 28 | Well , can we get back to the basic thing about classlessness . |
| 29 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 30 | Finding out about the worthwhile things men in space can do is best done with a unified , if multi-faceted , programme . |