Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've gone off him since I met Tony but we do share a love of mother earth and I want to see this thing through . |
| 2 | I want to do this thing as well as it can be done , and with as few deaths as we can manage . |
| 3 | ‘ Howard Baker , ’ says Bill Mishkin , ‘ I want to make this thing . |
| 4 | ‘ But we seem to have this thing in Wales about always knocking our best players and looking around to try to put forward rivals who are n't as good . ’ |
| 5 | and you swim backwards to the shore and you climb out and know do that thing without breathing . |
| 6 | You try pushing this thing fifteen miles in a morning ! |
| 7 | I must say I do miss that thing . |
| 8 | One minute , she starts collecting one thing then you start collecting another thing Christmas , he come home with one of them . |
| 9 | Forgive me and do put that thing down . |
| 10 | Thanks for coming on David now you 've hated this thing ever since it 's gone up have n't you ? |
| 11 | No I 've not decided but I know I am I 've done this thing before it 's |
| 12 | So er , anyway , I er I 've done this thing today , I 've to come up with , I 'll do this afternoon . |
| 13 | But you 've done some thing tonight , you know . |
| 14 | And you 've made this thing , hydrogen carbonate |
| 15 | I hope you 've got that thing switched off ! |
| 16 | I would , he said , but I 've got this thing called Slik just going . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got this thing about beetles . |
| 18 | All the guests have to be wired up with a radio mike , and just before she went on , she said : ‘ I 've got this thing strapped between my legs — I hope it does n't give way … . ’ |
| 19 | I 've got this thing that I like , that I like to do , but maybe it 's selfish , but on the other hand , I do n't know . |
| 20 | We 've got this thing about respect , anyone one second older than you , you respect them . |
| 21 | Cos we 've got this thing after that |
| 22 | Er we 've got this thing called Command and Promise have n't we ? |
| 23 | Mm course I 've got this thing over my feet , cos I getting faint . |
| 24 | I said to Russell I 'll go upstairs and have a look at the bedrooms and I 've got this thing that if it 's a nice house I 'd go and have a look at the bedrooms , he said well why ? |
| 25 | well we 've got this thing against her now cos she 's flirting with Ricky ! |
| 26 | So , like , we 've got this thing about her , anyway , she was com and she was talking to Fiona today and she was stood next to me , and like in a way , I was laughing at her but I felt so sorry for her cos she really , really stunk ! |
| 27 | So you 've got this thing |
| 28 | But something like the choir or where you 've been working , I do n't know you , I , I 've got this thing which is |
| 29 | Maybe we 've got some thing to learn here for the nineteen eighties . |
| 30 | Needless to say Lord Elphinstone did not hesitate to respond to the challenge and rallied his friends , while at the same time pointedly expressing his hope , when writing to the duke , that ‘ neither my friend or I have done any thing to deserve your Grace 's withdrawing your friendship , interest & protection ’ . |