Example sentences of "the [adj] thing [coord] " 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 | It did cross my mind that she might actually get across the damn thing and hit land before the wind dropped , but I reckoned that even if that happened I had done my best , and honour was satisfied . |
| 3 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 4 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 5 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
| 6 | ‘ Now is n't that the strange thing and me going all the way to Belfast market . ’ |
| 7 | With all the lights and daylight and sunshine through the bloody thing and It was alright once he got off but he had a job getting off when it was |
| 8 | You may remember E. Nesbit , the great children 's writer and inventer of the family of Wouldbegoods , who were very English , trying to do the right thing but often falling over themselves — or others — when it came to practice . |
| 9 | I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing but I got up and started towards him as he finally got the clip to slide into the gun and snick home . |
| 10 | I wanted to be sure that I was doing the right thing and would n't regret it . |
| 11 | He was an effortless survival of the 1930s , where fiction had abounded in well-meaning young men who had striven to Do the Right Thing and come to grief , at least till the last page of the story . |
| 12 | Wooster , after all , in the inter-war Jeeves stories , was eternally trying to do the Right Thing and succeeding ( if at all ) only on the last page of the story . |
| 13 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 14 | So I ask them to do the right thing and put a 50 mph speed restriction , together with the CANT of the track and provided the doors are properly shut which is the responsibility of the staff not the passengers , they will have no further trouble . |
| 15 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 16 | She had done the right thing and Robert 's note promised friendliness . |
| 17 | and we can sing them and , feel that we 're doing the right thing and go our way but Lord we pray that the words we sing might be the words that we means , and the words that we say might be the things and the , the way we mean to conduct our lives . |
| 18 | a more detached view of what was the right thing or the wrong thing to do , a tradition of what national life was like , and what it ought to continue to be like . |
| 19 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 20 | The draught from that 's , yeah so you 're not sure whether you 're doing the right thing or not |
| 21 | When will the Government start to do the proper thing and uprate the benefits as they should ? |
| 22 | Good old Britain : not only doing the wrong thing but unable to keep it secret . |
| 23 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 24 | I 'd put the phone down rather than say the wrong thing and have my brother wreck yet another piece of Post Office property . |
| 25 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 26 | Perhaps on this occasion , many of them will do the sensible thing and decide to stay at home . |
| 27 | But , after a management reshuffle , it has done the sensible thing and cut the dividend . |
| 28 | Eventually , I did the sensible thing and consulted everyone who had planted trees recently in the neighbourhood . |
| 29 | By the final whistle he 'd done the sensible thing and switched to Gazza . |
| 30 | the slightest thing and |