Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The hotel looked good — particularly the room service — but I do n't think I 'd want to have gone through the other things that happened to Kevin unless I had 50,000 policeman and 20,000 doctors with me to make sure I was okay . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was their story , everything in it seems to have led to the next thing — now it should have a stop ! |
| 3 | But for some people who 've dabbled in the real thing the effects have been fatal . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe . |
| 5 | I gather you 've looked into the whole thing . ’ |
| 6 | and see what you 've done to the poor thing . |
| 7 | ‘ Why ? ’ asked Antony , with a polite interest which ten minutes later had turned into the real thing . |
| 8 | ‘ Now ’ , said my guide , ‘ you 've seen about the finest thing in corridors and new main line coaches , so come and have a look at our new Watford locals — the best locals , bar none , in the Kingdom ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been better if he 'd killed me , and had done with the whole thing ! |
| 10 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 11 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 12 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 13 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 14 | The argument was over Zack 's decision to close with the negotiator called Quinn and have done with the whole thing at two million dollars ransom . |
| 15 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 16 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 17 | so , so that everybody 's threatened by the same thing so that |
| 18 | perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and |
| 19 | No no but suppose some other mother may be listening to it have go through the same thing . |
| 20 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |