Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its disciples talk of new values , its detractors say there 's no such thing as new when you 're a hardened pro — just good and bad , successful and unsuccessful . |
| 2 | Every year in October we say it is the finest thing in the garden . |
| 3 | Erm , but as I say it 's a good thing that you 're doing yourselves . |
| 4 | The inner cities have a problem — we say it 's a good thing . |
| 5 | Black guys say it 's a monetary thing , but I do n't think its strictly money . |
| 6 | A public inquiry is considering plans for a third supermarket — opponents say it 's the last thing the town needs . |
| 7 | If you speak there 's a black thing that appears . |
| 8 | Okay Suzanne before you go for your first sail there are a few things you need to learn about basic boat controls . |
| 9 | Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . " |
| 10 | Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’ |
| 11 | But i I must say I like it is a marvellous thing to be able to do that ! |
| 12 | ‘ I know it 's a terrible thing to say , but I wish sometimes Jimmie had died before he made Mammoth . |
| 13 | now , yeah I know it 's a daft thing , but what about erm |
| 14 | you 'd have to be study you know time and that there , ooh I know it 's a grand thing is education lessons , but |
| 15 | So , I know it 's a sensitive thing this elderly person 's home , but I would argue that underpinning it is a logic . |
| 16 | I know it 's a horrible thing to say |
| 17 | I 'm surprised she did n't get I know it 's a horrible thing to say but |
| 18 | ‘ I know it 's a dreadful thing to say , after all we 've been through . |
| 19 | Where she worked , her relationship with this man who was murdered , and so forth , and you know it 's a funny thing . |
| 20 | Oh I know it 's a funny thing ! |
| 21 | Now I know it 's a funny thing but this time because of demand it was forty eight , now alright out of that forty eight three was still , right one was in hospital so you can |
| 22 | As you know it 's the only thing that brings Gesner to heel . |
| 23 | you know it 's the worse thing |
| 24 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 25 | You know it 's the one thing I really ca n't stand , Antoinette shouted : disobedience . |
| 26 | Because you know it 's the same thing . |
| 27 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 28 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 29 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 30 | I mean there was no such things as home helps and and that sort of thing in those days , it was a case of of doing it yourself . |