Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | so see the thing is if you wanted to go , see , that Sunday half way we did did n't we ? , do n't you remember we had to cross the road ? |
| 2 | Just bandage the thing and be done with it . ’ |
| 3 | He just put the Thing down on the floor and sat down next to it , and watched them . |
| 4 | Have you seen the , the advert for these trainers with no laces , you just tighten the thing up . |
| 5 | The idea gradually built up ; David Wood , the children 's writer , wrote the script ; we went and found a company , and gradually put the thing ( Chip 's Comic ) together . |
| 6 | Indeed , Mafouz looked as if he was about to do something far more dramatic than simply catch the thing . |
| 7 | If you did n't live up to your word then do the thing you said you would do but did n't . |
| 8 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |
| 9 | They should be doing that work , if they 're asking us to design a remit , price it and then they 're using that remit to get prices from other people , er I would suggest that , that we perhaps ought to have words with our clients on that basis a and say we 're quite happy to tender in competition but erm i you ought to give it a little bit of thought before you actually put the thing . |
| 10 | Both band and company quietly let the thing slip away , never to be mentioned again . |
| 11 | The individuals who are recognized by their peers as those who actually keep the thing going , are not only unrewarded , but actually held back . |
| 12 | It 's about the rapport , it 's about the introduction , it 's about how we actually settle the thing from the outset . |