Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 2 | I want to say the thing that 's happening at the moment in my difficult life that I 'd hold onto like a drowning man with a log . |
| 3 | I hardly like to throw the thing away . |
| 4 | But , to be fair to your potential customers , who could do this themselves , if they so desired , it seems to me that you have to treat the thing as a business from the word go , and try to bring something different to the market . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , the Thing says we do n't have to get on it , we just have to put the Thing on it . ’ |
| 6 | Dare to do the thing you chose as being the most important . |
| 7 | You can just go up for a ride , letting someone else do all the work while you enjoy the sensation , or learn to pilot the thing for yourself . |