Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I want that some if all the social services just put in with the thing having |
| 2 | Let's go and sit down in the thing |
| 3 | Defries shouted , a cry of mixed defiance and horror , and brought a boot down on the thing . |
| 4 | I 'm only looking , I have n't even got down to the thing yet . |
| 5 | And you could get so many in on the thing . |
| 6 | If you wan na come , drive over on the thing and come , what we 'll do , we 'll do what we do when we bring Pat and Alan . |
| 7 | You 're better off without the thing . |
| 8 | There is also something disingenuous about it , since by setting language up as a thing , a monolith , it stops us asking whose words , images and traditions will be under attack if the conventions are changed . |
| 9 | Even Mervyn , whose hands were flying across the keys of his accordion , was seen to gape up towards the thing dancing like a huge firefly in the dusk . |
| 10 | I grew up with a thing about alcohol — I think that 's got a lot to do with why I preferred a line of coke rather than a drink . |
| 11 | ‘ Sex is important to everybody but I think it 's been blown up into a thing that you must have and do . ’ |
| 12 | Why did she have to get herself mixed up in a thing like this on her first day in London ? |
| 13 | They might want him or her to have a key , you know and er and just ran the keys up on a thing like that , you know what I mean , they was never out of the person 's possession . |
| 14 | One small red light lit up on the Thing 's black surface . |
| 15 | But , even if she could find the nerve to admit to her deception , she could n't own up to a thing — Cara was depending on her ! |
| 16 | You 're running up to the thing , yeah ? |
| 17 | No answer , then Spencer passed out for a few seconds , only to wake to the pungent smell of burning and the sharp realisation that he must now get out of the thing . |
| 18 | As far as she could remember , it was something about jumping out of the thing you cook in and into the thing you cooked on . |
| 19 | He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original … |
| 20 | Yes I do think you need to why do n't you just try dishing it up out of the thing ? |
| 21 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 22 | glass bowl out of the thing to get the big fruit bowl there and one of them broke . |
| 23 | And I think by the time she 'd finished it would be half price , she 'd walk out with the thing half price , and she 'd say , well you know , it 's just , they make up prices and you go to another shop and it would be the half price marked , and you go into another shop it would be , you know , |
| 24 | Well not recycling bringing it back into the thing , washing it and and refilling . |
| 25 | They spread out from the Thing like a tide ; panels lit up like little skies full of stars , big lights in the ceiling flickered on , there was a distant banging and fizzing as electricity was woken up , and the air began to smell of thunderstorms . |
| 26 | I love Sally 's pictures because of a certain magic and charm she brings out in every thing she paints . |
| 27 | Put your tape machine back in the thing . |
| 28 | I 'm going back to the thing about erm and boys and |
| 29 | Anyway , so that gets back to the thing over policy . |
| 30 | He was new and he joined after the project submission had gone in , but at a stage where it needed to be implemented and he sewed on to the thing straight away . |