Example sentences of "thing [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down below , they could hear the sounds of the thing shambling on the staircase . |
| 2 | You know , because tremendous publicity quite rightly the thing given to the campaign to save the pits . |
| 3 | ‘ You feel , perhaps , that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring back a shipload of gold ? ’ |
| 4 | What 's the last thing to go through a fly 's mind when it hits the front of your car ? |
| 5 | I bet that was the first thing to go into the fire . |
| 6 | Sufferers will deny that their problems have any connection with alcohol or drugs or other addictive substances or behaviour and will protect their employment until it is almost the very last thing to go before the final total surrender to addiction . |
| 7 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 8 | The same thing goes for the World Service of the BBC . |
| 9 | Every , every single B T thing goes to the one location now |
| 10 | and then there 's like a little white thing hanging with a little teddy in |
| 11 | A dead thing hanging in a noose over the stairs . |
| 12 | As this thing got near the end obviously making for her side , away from the door , she realised what the round blob was — ; it was the nub of the umbrella they had bought their daughter . |
| 13 | It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’ |
| 14 | Again she speeded up until she was almost running , then laughed at Ember 's wry expression as the whole thing developed into a silly race . |
| 15 | Closed ‘ This type of thing verges on the barbaric . |
| 16 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 17 | Now if we can sort of simplify the whole thing forget about the continents and that sort of thing what happens is that the sea water is attracted , obviously not this much , but the sea water is attracted towards The sea is attracted by the moon and you end up if you like with this bulge in the sea Now what is not so easy to understand |
| 18 | The first thing to try with a blocked sink , bath or basin is a pressure device . |
| 19 | The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access . |
| 20 | One observes that the only difference between these verbs and know lies in the type of condition invoked as allowing one to represent the person or thing denoted by the direct object as being in the state denoted by the infinitive : knowledge vs belief or opinion . |
| 21 | John Major saying that people will have to accept restrictions on on car usages and it 's an amazing thing to come from a Tory . |
| 22 | Not a bit of pepper , either , unless that green thing lurking under a leaf was one . |
| 23 | The most difficult thing to find on a golf course . |
| 24 | I balanced the cup and saucer on the palm of one hand and watched as the saucer became thicker and thicker until it was a foot deep , then noticed the same thing happening to the half-moon rug . |
| 25 | Odds against the same thing happening at the count on February 20 ? |
| 26 | where branches are silouetted against the colours of the sunset they must be rich and strong enough to help intensify the sense of the light coming through then , but not so rich that they seem to close , or start to compete with the same thing happening in the ripples that form their reflection . |
| 27 | So hopefully that 's going to stop this sort of thing happening in the future . |
| 28 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 29 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |
| 30 | It has so far only managed to produce a sample P5 running at 40MHz — just two thirds of the 66MHz speed Intel intended — and can not get the thing to work at a faster rate . |