Example sentences of "thing [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's the last thing to go through a fly 's mind when it hits the front of your car ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The first thing to try with a blocked sink , bath or basin is a pressure device . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The most difficult thing to find on a golf course . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cars seem to be the most difficult thing to purchase on a cash basis . |
| 9 | ‘ Let me warn you , my boy — it 's one thing to look like a donkey , but much easier to act like one . ’ |
| 10 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 11 | I shall certainly do what I can to advance the matter , but I hesitate to say what about the paper , because I do n't think it is an easy thing to cover in a paper . |
| 12 | The hope that at least the disappearance of the Party might be one thing to emerge from a lost war was said in one report to be more widespread in rural areas than appeared to be so on the surface . |
| 13 | It 's really not the thing to do as a career . |
| 14 | Yeah well it 's not really the wisest thing to do on a Thursday night anyway |
| 15 | ‘ Parents may think the best thing to do with a nervous child is to tell him or her not to worry . |
| 16 | The best thing to do with a 24v Land Rover is a compromise . |
| 17 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 18 | Is n't this the best thing to do with a lock them in their office ? |
| 19 | ( What a thing to do to a loving little boy ! |
| 20 | Is that a nice thing to do to a friend , eh ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Is n't bottling rather a cruel thing to do to a spirit ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Beast — what a beastly thing to do to a poor girl . |
| 23 | He asked me to try and get him a map but this was a difficult thing to do in a place the size of Fontanellato , where hardly anyone possessed even an atlas of the world . |
| 24 | ‘ The only thing to do in a crisis is to change people ’ . |
| 25 | And I would have thought that that was a disgraceful thing to do in a public , in the council to a , a sample being brought up and they were afraid to look at it . |
| 26 | This was quite the right thing to do in a coffee-bar in the King 's Road . |
| 27 | That would be the proper thing to do in a student textbook . |
| 28 | which is a sensible thing to do in a way . |
| 29 | What a ridiculous thing to think about a man she detested . |
| 30 | It seemed an unnecessary thing to have with a harpsichord . |