Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the moments you wish you were shot of the whole thing you know perfectly well that it 's precisely because you could n't endure to be without it , now you know about it , that you 've got to go through all this . |
| 2 | And , of course , in no time at all , we were talking about the one thing that obsessed every one of us , cancer . |
| 3 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 4 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 5 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 6 | This show was based on the same thing . |
| 7 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 8 | Jessamyn was talking to the tall thing . |
| 9 | Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott . |
| 10 | But the parody was mistaken for the real thing , and the songs made the charts . |