Example sentences of "thing at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was the right thing at the right time . |
| 2 | ‘ Having the bump out the front was so obviously the right thing at the right time . |
| 3 | Yet on the other hand , for the counsellor to be too conscious of saying the right thing at the right time in every situation represents a state of mind that can only hamper the counselling process . |
| 4 | An officer 's doing the right thing at the right time is taken for granted . |
| 5 | Yet it seems they keep doing the wrong thing at the wrong time , according to the papers . |
| 6 | An eight-year-old child does not learn the same thing at the same speed as a five-year-old child . |
| 7 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |
| 8 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 9 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 10 | Ann said they kept both wanting the same thing at the same time . |
| 11 | Language , by not replacing the signified thing at the supposed centre of the structure it has created , discredits the idea of there being a centre at all . |