Example sentences of "about the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pleasant and nice songs I suppose I do n't know it 's just , quite like it , it 's now big , it 's about the most thing he 's ever recorded that I have liked , |
| 2 | The Boston Compact was essentially about employability , ( although there were some initial allusions to community regeneration ) ; the two key funding UK government departments are obviously principally about the same thing . |
| 3 | In the heat of debate , when one side may accuse the other of not knowing what they are talking about , both sides will still assume they are talking about the same thing . |
| 4 | When making a contract be sure that you are both talking about the same thing . |
| 5 | And I am terribly bored by my colleagues in art history , who always write about the same thing . |
| 6 | There is one proviso to this : make sure that both you and the client are talking about the same thing . |
| 7 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 8 | Has anyone got any I mean I you do n't all need to write about the same thing or anything . |
| 9 | Ambivalence was a , a term coined in about nineteen O five , by the Swiss psychiatrist , , and it was taken up particularly by psychoanalysis , and as a psychoanalytic term , it means the co-existence of contradictory thoughts , feelings or emotions about the same thing . |
| 10 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 11 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 12 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 13 | so they both about the same thing , he 's been sitting there worried all day , he 's |
| 14 | 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 . |