Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 2 | She has rather a thing about patchwork . |
| 3 | do you know where you send in the thing to ? |
| 4 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |
| 5 | ‘ George they are n't going to find out a thing if we do n't tip them off . |
| 6 | It would have been no secret to you that Connors of the Globe would tip me off if he found out a thing like that . |
| 7 | In the meantime , we are content to know how the thing functions . |
| 8 | Oh , I do n't know where the thing is . |
| 9 | This continued for eight days or nine , till the companions of the Cid had made ready every thing for their departure , as he had commanded . |
| 10 | filling in the thing every day . |
| 11 | Inclosure like a Buonaparte let not a thing remain |
| 12 | ‘ Enclosure like a Buonaparte let not a thing remain/ it levelled every bush and tree and levelled every hill/ and hung the moles for traitors — though the brook is running still/ it runs a naked stream cold and chill , ’ he proclaimed vehemently . |
| 13 | HOWEVER , HIS SINGING CAREER STARTED in , of all places , the pop charts : ‘ I was sixteen years old at the time , and at the end of the sixties it seemed just the thing to do . |
| 14 | Masklin lifted up the Thing . |
| 15 | I could n't keep doon a thing I ate . |
| 16 | The odd thing is that the earliest models — unstreamlined and primitive ( thermostats were n't available until the 20s ) — seem just the thing you 'd see in today 's trendy kitchen . |
| 17 | It might become just the thing to have a plant standing in a four and a half inch pot which contains a cool five grand in shredded tenners . |
| 18 | And er I was gon na , er er , look up the thing . |
| 19 | But you know , what an awful Scotch thick-head I am , and that I never give up a thing , before I do not see the absolute impossibility . ’ |
| 20 | I rather liked her , though I could n't see how the thing would work . |
| 21 | ‘ You really do both look quite the thing . ’ |
| 22 | It sounds just the thing — like fate , really , after what you were saying . |
| 23 | ‘ But I know just the thing to cheer us up . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I know just the thing for a hedgehog party ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I know just the thing , ’ the doctor told him . |
| 26 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 27 | No I suppose not a thing |
| 28 | Now , if you 've got the odd spare weekend , a boat and £55,000 to spend , we may have found just the thing for you a fantasy island all of your own , and it 's up for sale right here in the heart of the Central South region . |
| 29 | She would tell him all about her not being Cara Kingsdale , but , of the stupid idiot Fabia Kingsdale who had fallen head over heels in love with him , he would hear not a thing . |
| 30 | I today did you do one bulls eye no not cut up the thing and say which sport does this person belong to might get a picture of Rob Andrews see if they stick rugby or tennis on . |