Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 2 | ‘ I choked the dirty thing , ’ said Nour , ‘ and threw it in the street for the dogs . ’ |
| 3 | She passed the whole thing over to me . |
| 4 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 5 | When we could n't revive it , it made the whole thing worse for them . |
| 6 | Editors often cut a vital sentence , too , and made the whole thing unbalanced . |
| 7 | The fact that we had definite goals on each trek , such as reaching a summit by sunrise , made the whole thing feel like an expedition . |
| 8 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 9 | I made the whole thing up from the start |
| 10 | The Unwins themselves — and it was impossible for anyone to grudge them their moment — said over and over that it was great , just great that one of the horses actually on the train had won one of the races , it made the whole thing worthwhile , and the whole party , drifting into the dining car in true party mood , agreed and applauded . |
| 11 | Many ‘ systemised ’ tanks combine all three ( as do external filters if you choose to load them that way ) but now in the BioLife unit Hagen have put together what is virtually the filter unit from a small systemised tank , complete with self-contained heaterstat , added the sort of wet-and-dry trickle filtration usually only available in under the tank units , and made the whole thing suitable for a three foot tank . |
| 12 | Most of them , though , were sympathetic and some , like Jeremy Paxman on Breakfast Time , made the whole thing that much less of an ordeal . |
| 13 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you saying Nicola made the whole thing up ? ’ |
| 15 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 16 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
| 17 | She longed to say : you 're lying , you made the whole thing up so you would n't get scolded for breaking the dish . |
| 18 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 19 | His sudden talk of alibis made the whole thing sound serious . |
| 20 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 21 | Especially as the childminder had n't seen what had happened , so she did n't realize why he was carrying on like he was , made the whole thing a little bit tricky , can I give you this ? |
| 22 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 23 | I refused the offer of an ice-cream but he bought an extra-large cone for himself and then , once we were seated , inserted the whole thing , wafer and all , into his mouth . |
| 24 | ‘ I expect he timed the whole thing with a stopwatch , ’ said Greg . |
| 25 | Well I buy Writers Monthly , but I never read the damn thing , you know , so I |
| 26 | Still , as Jane belonged nowhere , Sussex became the nearest thing to home . |
| 27 | Money which in the sixteenth century had played merely a marginal , though a necessary part , now became the one thing necessary for the maintenance of life … |
| 28 | And I I think that it it it would just grow out of that kind of activity and then eventually when ploughing matches er , as such , in the you know , in the adult farm , with horses , became the great thing er which was the second half of the last century , you know after the farming revolution . |
| 29 | Cancer now became the biggest thing in my life . |
| 30 | Question : what did Spanish film-maker Aldomovar do before he achieved world domination and became the trendiest thing on the planet ? |