Example sentences of "[coord] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem I must admit the problem that surprised me with overheads is that erm people ca n't write and listen at the same time , or the other thing is , you put something on an overhead th every bit of it gets written down which is why I adapted it so that you did . |
| 2 | Doing the best or the right thing is central to the definition of agape love , because it allows us to see that love is not some sugar-plum notion — it is an investment in the future as well . |
| 3 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 4 | In the evolution game , whether the computer version or the real thing , the player ( or observer ) obtains the same feeling of wandering metaphorically through a labyrinth of branching passages , but the number of possible pathways is all but infinite , and the monsters that one encounters are undesigned and unpredictable . |
| 5 | Ms Radice got to the crux of the matter when she told The Washington Post , ‘ To me , when the obvious sexual nature … is the only thing you see or the first thing you see or the overwhelming thing that you experience the American public has given us a lot of guidance on this , and Congress has given us a lot of guidance , saying they do n't want us to spend money on that particular type of art ’ . |
| 6 | Ms Radice got to the crux of the matter when she told The Washington Post , ‘ To me , when the obvious sexual nature … is the only thing you see or the first thing you see or the overwhelming thing that you experience the American public has given us a lot of guidance on this , and Congress has given us a lot of guidance , saying they do n't want us to spend money on that particular type of art ’ . |
| 7 | or the best thing is they |
| 8 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 9 | Those issues all interact , of course ; like those fiendish three-dimensional puzzles that children can often do more easily than adults , the pieces have to be put together simultaneously , or the whole thing falls apart . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a shade of pink which we had to get , or the whole thing would have looked wrong . |
| 11 | The sustain and the feedback was amazing , but boy , you had to be quick off the mark to damp the strings , or the whole thing would feed back unbelievably . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , so far it comes back to this : either it 's a matter of money , or the whole thing revolves around the two women , and the character of Walter Machin . ’ |
| 13 | this is a structural change , what you could do or the easiest thing would be to do was just to incorporate a dummy variable , right , if you incorporated a dummy variable to a erm and to explain the and to take out the effect of structural change , right , er in that dummy inclusive model , right , all the diagnostic test statistics were okay , right , you would use , you would , therefore , use that , that particular model what we might do is just see if that is the case erm so if you come out of er diagnostics , work towards the data processing environment and generate a dummy variable right , so if you go into the erm data processing environment if it 's in the er sort of process plot option what we 'll do create a dummy variable call it D and let D pull zero press the return key and then edit D oh and if you just set erm observations for |
| 14 | Keep down or the same thing might happen to you . ’ |
| 15 | You 'll have to have it up a little bit or the same thing 'll happen at |
| 16 | But all the explanation she gave me was , ‘ Now yow keep away from the lads an' never let 'em kiss yer or the next thing yer know yer 'll be 'avin' a baby . |
| 17 | So the next message that I was going to or the next thing I was concerned about really , was on page |
| 18 | And essay , write an essay on this , that or the next thing , at the weekend . |
| 19 | This is the last thing you will want following major surgery or illness or the last thing your family will want following your death . |
| 20 | a more detached view of what was the right thing or the wrong thing to do , a tradition of what national life was like , and what it ought to continue to be like . |
| 21 | We still take it in the ass every morning , along with everybody else-but the whole thing 's over in a trice these days . |
| 22 | ‘ And the poor thing so badly trained that it can not be brought into a Christian household . ’ |
| 23 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 24 | And the wee thing 's and I do n't think you 'd get a bit sinus in the wee . |
| 25 | and the awkward thing was to hack a wood in the centre |
| 26 | After the non-fictional Sportsman 's Sketches , Fathers and Children is Turgenev 's best book , and the best thing in it , apart perhaps from the bereaved old couple at the end , is the sensitive give-and-take marriage of its hero 's idealism to his scepticism , a questing , generous idealism and an undestroying scepticism . |
| 27 | For example , the deployment of explosive rats where they would do the most good , or harm ( in wartime the two may be synonymous ) was aided by accompanying them by leaflets saying that the British were delivering rats infected with bubonic plague and the best thing to do with them , if found , was to throw them into a furnace . |
| 28 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 29 | So I thought , there might be a Law about it , and the best thing to do would be to ask a solicitor . |
| 30 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |