Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage that Ken offered the team was the ability to be able to pull off love scenes and other out-of-character poses without anyone ridiculing the whole thing . |
| 2 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 3 | I lose the damn thing and crash blindly against him , but he skips backwards , and as the mist clears I see his eyes blazing and his teeth bared and the gun is comfortable in his hand and pointing at my chest . |
| 4 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 6 | I only have to wear the damned thing ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to wear the wretched thing after all , just to give a talking-point . |
| 8 | All of us , or perhaps , not all of us , but most of us do worry about our food , we eat too much , we eat too little , we eat the wrong thing ! |
| 9 | ‘ I choked the dirty thing , ’ said Nour , ‘ and threw it in the street for the dogs . ’ |
| 10 | She passed the whole thing over to me . |
| 11 | He seems convinced of the inherent stability of the hydrogen bomb — after all , he does build the damn things . |
| 12 | Unwisely , as it turns out , the credits display the real thing , which is at least a dozen times better than this carelessly silly concoction . |
| 13 | Semi-contact sparring at a martial arts club is an excellent way of simulating the real thing . |
| 14 | A voice says , ‘ You must throw the black thing away . |
| 15 | and it 'll throw the whole thing . |
| 16 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 17 | When we could n't revive it , it made the whole thing worse for them . |
| 18 | Editors often cut a vital sentence , too , and made the whole thing unbalanced . |
| 19 | The fact that we had definite goals on each trek , such as reaching a summit by sunrise , made the whole thing feel like an expedition . |
| 20 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 21 | I made the whole thing up from the start |
| 22 | The Unwins themselves — and it was impossible for anyone to grudge them their moment — said over and over that it was great , just great that one of the horses actually on the train had won one of the races , it made the whole thing worthwhile , and the whole party , drifting into the dining car in true party mood , agreed and applauded . |
| 23 | Many ‘ systemised ’ tanks combine all three ( as do external filters if you choose to load them that way ) but now in the BioLife unit Hagen have put together what is virtually the filter unit from a small systemised tank , complete with self-contained heaterstat , added the sort of wet-and-dry trickle filtration usually only available in under the tank units , and made the whole thing suitable for a three foot tank . |
| 24 | Most of them , though , were sympathetic and some , like Jeremy Paxman on Breakfast Time , made the whole thing that much less of an ordeal . |
| 25 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you saying Nicola made the whole thing up ? ’ |
| 27 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 28 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
| 29 | She longed to say : you 're lying , you made the whole thing up so you would n't get scolded for breaking the dish . |
| 30 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |