Example sentences of "[vb base] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lose the damn thing and crash blindly against him , but he skips backwards , and as the mist clears I see his eyes blazing and his teeth bared and the gun is comfortable in his hand and pointing at my chest . |
| 2 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 4 | At the flops , the bums all eat the same thing . |
| 5 | All of us , or perhaps , not all of us , but most of us do worry about our food , we eat too much , we eat too little , we eat the wrong thing ! |
| 6 | Unwisely , as it turns out , the credits display the real thing , which is at least a dozen times better than this carelessly silly concoction . |
| 7 | If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’ |
| 8 | always like , quite when they re repeat the same thing the week after . |
| 9 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 10 | Approaching Lothern the first thing a mariner sees is the Glittering Tower , a great lighthouse filled with thousands of lamps , situated on a rocky isle in the mouth of the treacherous waters of the Straits of Lothern . |
| 11 | Maureen , book the only thing you did n't get today |
| 12 | They should bring along a crane and pick the whole thing up with me in it and call it Frozen Communications and put it in some art gallery . |
| 13 | The group are also computer buffs on a mission to not only push out musical frontiers but combine the whole thing into a total multi-media package . |
| 14 | What did daddy make the whole thing ? |
| 15 | Did daddy make the whole thing ? |
| 16 | Study the competition , the commercials and the advertisements of other manufacturers who make the same thing . |
| 17 | For example I mean the one thing about the Europe that the Eastbourne electorate apparently ah understood erm was I 'm sorry the Christchurch electorate understood , was a social contract . |
| 18 | I mean the one thing that Neil Webb can do , as you say he he 's missed a lot of football he played against our Reserves Thursday night , but the one thing he can do if he get an opportunity he can produce a telling ball . |
| 19 | I mean the one thing that has happened in recent times , and I do n't like prophecies so , I do n't wish to be a part of one , let's be clear about that , I 'm doing this as an analyst . |
| 20 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
| 21 | Yes , I mean the other thing is if we are absolutely honest , which we should n't be with a microphone in front of us but , if we 're absolutely honest , you know this , this is a bit of work that we 're trying to make simple |
| 22 | As a group I mean the other thing that surprised me a bit , I , I spoke to Ken yesterday and said , how did you receive ? |
| 23 | and , and sort of when can we have a script you know and you write it down and take thirty per cent of it , or whatever you know , erm , I mean the other thing that Alex has drawn er |
| 24 | The , I mean the other thing , have I , have I said that the new engine |
| 25 | I mean the only thing that an appeal fund like that should do is to give the widows and dependents of the the dead of the platform , it should give them immediate money to tide them over until they get their compensation which they need . |
| 26 | but if you think about it , there is the hard ones can have a lot better ca n't they , I mean the only thing that 'll actually harm them is that if you get poked in the eye or something and it shatters the lens cos they are actually |
| 27 | I mean the real thing . |
| 28 | But I mean the best thing is the tin it come in . |
| 29 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 30 | I mean the main thing is these new leaflets really |