Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | me the actual thing of what we 're saying . |
| 2 | It seems to me the only thing to do . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Just gim me the damn thing . ’ |
| 4 | When he was hot , he was hot , but for me the whole thing was not so good . |
| 5 | ‘ And you really think I 'm stupid enough to believe that — what was it , blackmail ? — would get me the very thing you think I desire ? |
| 6 | As I say , for me the important thing is the play , not any feminist axe-grinding . |
| 7 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 8 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 9 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 10 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
| 11 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 12 | I , that , for me the hardest thing to do is example is study Spanish . |
| 13 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 14 | ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’ |
| 15 | Er it was I the only thing that that brought it to mind was Ann herself stumbled over it as she said it you know playwright |
| 16 | They were n't any good by themselves er , these things because I the other thing which you had to get from somewhere was output rates . |
| 17 | Yeah , I mean I The important thing is I think the children do recognize the differences , not that they do n't notice the differences , because they 're Like you say they 're capable of using the other if it if it suits them . |
| 18 | I 'll tell you the unkindest thing I know about him : he was caught being beastly to a woman at a party for no obvious reason . |
| 19 | Yeah what I was going to say to you the only thing is will you put a plug up . |
| 20 | ‘ I might be asking you the same thing , my lord . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I might ask you the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I might ask you the same thing . |
| 23 | Probably tell you the same thing a different way . |
| 24 | ‘ I had thought to ask you the same thing . |
| 25 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
| 26 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 27 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |
| 28 | Erm but er I think when you say about being confrontational there 's if you 've got a client in front of you the last thing that you want to do is have erm a confrontation with them |
| 29 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 30 | Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative . |