Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Ferguson had found and what the left just could not see was that when Hollywood really tried they produced a thing that ought not be pedantically analysed for ‘ the thing exists by itself for its moments on the screen , unquestionable ’ . |
| 2 | And in fact any response is probably going to be negative to that , because they did such bad read-out when they read the thing that they 're going to want to be pretty snotty , sort of , anything they wrote about that . |
| 3 | Did you not hear about when they broke the thing ? |
| 4 | Up to about twen they kept the thing going their pitch going I suppose twen to about twenty years ago . |
| 5 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 6 | They had a thing for brown : brown robes , brown carpets , brown rice . |