Example sentences of "[vb base] the thing be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean the thing is , as soon as the Citizens open the box office for pantomime , I phoned them and said |
| 2 | But I mean the thing is here that the twenty thousand pounds , if it 's invested er into National Savings , you c you 've got another ten thousand and you could look for er a fixed return . |
| 3 | Yes , that 's right , er I mean the thing is you do n't know how much income you 've got to generate really . |
| 4 | Well the , I mean the thing is that erm over the past erm we 've been recommended to people |
| 5 | I mean the thing is . |
| 6 | I mean alright she , we have n't phoned each other but I mean the thing is half of her she 's just so naive with mother . |
| 7 | I mean the thing is at the age of sixty he has no conception of what it 's like to be your age at this period . |
| 8 | Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded |
| 9 | I know , so I mean the thing is that we 've always said have n't ya as long as you can sort of get 'em down |
| 10 | Mm , either way though , I mean the thing is if they do , you , you would be in for a little bit of something , if you hung it out till be , to being redundant |
| 11 | Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them . |
| 12 | I mean the thing is though |
| 13 | I mean the thing is were some good conversation . |
| 14 | Woe betide anybody who becomes ill in Australia that 's all I can say I mean the thing is why is Neighbours put on twice a day cos I do n't believe in |
| 15 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 16 | I mean the thing is it 's a limited market is n't it ? |
| 17 | I mean the thing is they 've got |
| 18 | I mean the thing is their own |
| 19 | Well it 's neither here nor there but I mean the thing is that we do n't as it is we 're not losing anything because you 're getting yours , half of it 's coming back as , as gross interest . |
| 20 | That 's right , I mean the thing is you train people to do it properly |
| 21 | Well yeah I mean , I mean the thing is it 's like why have you got those headphones round your neck ? |
| 22 | I mean the thing is you want to say ‘ oh , you 're looking well today ’ the minute you think somebody 's looking well , but if you 've got |
| 23 | I mean the thing is the economic advisers , the Prime Minister 's advisers , are behind the scenes . |
| 24 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 25 | You see , we 've never been very happy with the people and she , she does do things if you ask her , I suppose the thing is that I should come down more often and say . |
| 26 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 27 | I think the a I think the thing is is that I , we ca n't mentally get into realize how to use his body weight which comes from using your feet and getting and the l and your legs and so forth . |
| 28 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 29 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 30 | I I think the thing is if , if you 'd 've demonstrated that or , or got to the stage of saying well alright , you know , if you 're retiring tomorrow how much money do you need to , to live on |