Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [art] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the accused have the intention permanently to deprive when he has not made up his mind to keep the thing permanently ? |
| 2 | She said if I send it back it 's gon na be nineteen pa it 's seven pound to get a thing back ! |
| 3 | Erm , they 're writing on behalf of the , to apply for a grant as detailed in the advert , erm , and basically , erm , it 's , it , they 're , they 're , they 're really asking for us for help to keep the thing running . |
| 4 | Since form and function are related to living things , when the information in an illustration is incorrect it can take more work in the long run to get the thing to look right . |
| 5 | It was not their place to do a thing . |
| 6 | When you went to the driller you 'd got ta hold it in your hand or get a sommat , a gadget to hold the thing on , pull put the drill in . |
| 7 | The Dolphin SCI Technology A/S arm of Oslo , Norway-based Dolphin Server Technology A/S , already has an agreement with Vitesse Semiconductor Corp to make chips for its Scalable Coherent Interface high-speed bus in Gallium Arsenide — it runs at 1Gbps — and with Convex Computer Corp to use the thing . |
| 8 | ‘ And not likely to find out , ’ the young man who emerged dragging a suitcase muttered , ‘ if you do n't give the poor girl a chance to finish a thing she 's saying . ’ |
| 9 | But the newspaper people — and the people who read them , which is pretty well everybody — they 've had no chance to think the thing through . |
| 10 | The player can control the direction which the machine moves in , representing the efforts of its crew to steer the thing by leaning precariously to one side or the other , but he has no say over the speed . |
| 11 | McGrath has been advised to go … after all , he 's a hot tip to win the thing . |
| 12 | Must must be terrible man to do a thing like that eh . |
| 13 | ‘ The last man to take a thing like that well , ’ E.M . |
| 14 | Ha the information that we 've put out so far were our second reprint of the er of the black booklet of which there 'll be twelve thousand , they are quite an expensive item and , but our feeling was that er in order to sell the thing you 've got to do it properly and er spending money does n't come easily but er er in order to market the thing er thought that was the , the way to go and we 've done other things , stickers and badges and posters and so on and so forth , the normal sort of things but we 've really tried to spread these around the country and get the message that it 's a vibrant young er interesting fun thing to be involved in for young people . |
| 15 | The now illegal practice of scuffing one half of the ball is no longer designed to allow the spinner to grip the thing , but to assist swing bowlers . |
| 16 | Ha the information that we 've put out so far were our second reprint of the er of the black booklet of which there 'll be twelve thousand , they are quite an expensive item and , but our feeling was that er in order to sell the thing you 've got to do it properly and er spending money does n't come easily but er er in order to market the thing er thought that was the , the way to go and we 've done other things , stickers and badges and posters and so on and so forth , the normal sort of things but we 've really tried to spread these around the country and get the message that it 's a vibrant young er interesting fun thing to be involved in for young people . |
| 17 | But I found in order to get the thing moving |
| 18 | Cos if you leave d go the cord straight away the cord just goes shooting up there , the weight inside comes down here and you lose the cord and you have to take the whole lot p t apart in order to get the thing to work again . |
| 19 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 20 | You 've scarcely had time to see a thing . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't want my son to hear a thing like that , ’ said Mrs Khalid . |
| 22 | In which case er given a little bit more time to fill the thing in , |
| 23 | The market-boast died first , as one by one , IBM 's hottest new products fell by the wayside , starting as early as Series/1 and the 8100 , continuing through System 38 , which was excellent , but scared IBM 's mainframe mafia too much , to the RT , such a disaster that when it came to the RS/6000 , IBM had to play new kid on the block and study and try to emulate the leaders in the Unix market to get the thing off the ground at all . |
| 24 | That is the time to get the thing out of the house and take up evening classes in deep-sea diving . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , seeing the keen glint in his eye and the impatient energy to get the thing settled that he was betraying , she did n't quite know how to turn him down . |