Example sentences of "thing [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It need not be a big thing so long as it is something novel to you and breaks your normal routine . |
| 2 | By and large , Parliament and the judiciary have taken the view that free speech is a very good thing so long as it does not cause trouble . |
| 3 | Scrap the thing so far and begin another . |
| 4 | You guys are gon na sponsor this but it will bring the the trade buying price , not the retail because that 's there is n't there 's no such thing in in as a retail price for that sort of industry . |
| 5 | Yeah well what I do sometimes I wear a thing just once and I think well it 's not dirty so I put it back in . |
| 6 | Chesarynth booted in the program , making her own little file with an octopus of dark hollow symbols : a worm that would eat up any trace of her prying , provided she did the whole thing quickly enough that no-one noticed while she was in . |
| 7 | We can only rely on each other , and we may as well get one thing straight here and now , Dr Blake . |
| 8 | Cos it 's silly to make a thing out more than what you need . |
| 9 | ‘ Same thing as far as council 's concerned , ’ Jeremiah said , writing in his book . |
| 10 | None of this had been cleared or replanted ; it was scrub woodland as nature had made it , the real thing as far as the boys were concerned . |
| 11 | The Empire might have become the Commonwealth , but that was just a new name for the same thing as far as we were concerned . |
| 12 | Mr Patten said later : ‘ The important thing as far as I am concerned is that it looks as if we are going to have a Conservative government . |
| 13 | The main thing as far as I 'm concerned is getting official approval . ’ |
| 14 | There 's a lot to be said for the modern falconry centres — anything that helps people to appreciate birds of prey is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned — although it 's a shame they have to be turned into tourist attractions . |
| 15 | You have to have confidence in your own ability and being black is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned 'cause I 've had to sample bits and pieces of how life can be nasty and it 's done me good . |
| 16 | That had to be a good thing as far as she was concerned , she told herself , so therefore she took him exactly at his word . |
| 17 | The only other slightly ‘ negative ’ thing as far as I was concerned was there seemed to be a lack of ‘ thrust ’ up front . |
| 18 | But the important thing as far as we were concerned , as is that the translation was done by John de Trevisa in thirteen ninety-eight , and some of you like Sam , were able to quote the middle English period and place thirteen ninety-eight towards the end of the middle English period , it 's really on the verge of early modern English . |
| 19 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 20 | Yeah you know what I 've done , it 's that er thing there well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray , and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up , you know when you move over and watching telly ? |
| 21 | So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work . |
| 22 | Anyone not a fool or a maniac should acknowledge Izzy 's ability to make this stuff work ; most people do this sort of thing very badly and so we call ‘ rock ’ inane and hopeless , but Stradlin brings verve and love to his work and the drooling beast is once more revivified . |