Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 2 | Well how can it , because it , it , I think it 's got to go through the thing here , if you see what I mean , it , it , the chop you 'd have to push it through a little bit and then have a , |
| 3 | She did not think about the thing inside her now . |
| 4 | I suppose I can be civilised about the thing . " |
| 5 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 6 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 7 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 8 | Coloured lights flickered across the Thing 's surface . |
| 9 | thing for next year , but I mean she will be one of those caught by the thing saying we 're not going to do it anyway . |
| 10 | And are you still looking for the thing where you go and buy and you give a fiver and it 's worth |
| 11 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 12 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 13 | It seemed like the thing to do . |
| 14 | ‘ Seemed like the thing to do . ’ |
| 15 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 16 | But the balance is a delicate one , for even the golfer , the competitor and the staff member may become ‘ caught up ’ and absorbed in the thing itself and enhancement of reputation may at least temporarily be held in abeyance . |
| 17 | ALTHOUGH it is not clear exactly what movements are incorporated in the thing , a Japanese ‘ mechatronics ’ artist has produced a robot Marilyn Monroe . |
| 18 | More plaster chunks exploded in the thing 's face and it staggered back again , lashing out . |
| 19 | As Gilbert 's words faded , he was back at the Unit again , listening to the thing which had once been Dr Bissell as it said … |
| 20 | Yes , it says on the thing that you can attach a job description to the back , but I should say that probably they want it appraisals that you get back , there is n't a job description attached and there 's nothing written on the board . |
| 21 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 22 | It contained — according to the Thing — everything and nothing . |
| 23 | ‘ According to the Thing , there 's worlds out there with nomes on . |
| 24 | workmen do n't guarantee that he is doing it according to the thing because |
| 25 | Spea , er speak to the thing and loudly or |
| 26 | A few lights moved on the Thing 's surface . |
| 27 | We are it said on the thing . |
| 28 | She 's gon na take them and do them , get them done at the thing and then take it home . |
| 29 | He was looking at the Thing rising out of the pit . |
| 30 | Lollo climbed aboard the thing . |