Example sentences of "[adj] thing at [art] " in BNC.

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1 I felt I had won several different things at the same time , including my war against the Portuguese Federation .
2 I felt two different things at the same time .
3 You will otherwise feel frustrated if you try to tackle different things at the same time .
4 If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley .
5 They swarmed up Parkside and boarded buses bound for Putney , shouting unpleasant things at the driver-conductor .
6 Yet it seems they keep doing the wrong thing at the wrong time , according to the papers .
7 They are such buy little things at the weekends .
8 Language , by not replacing the signified thing at the supposed centre of the structure it has created , discredits the idea of there being a centre at all .
9 About this little thing at the back of the eye ?
10 Was that considered a hard thing at the time ?
11 Oh , they said how heroic he was and the headmaster said all the right things at the school memorial service .
12 Although he lacked any deep personal convictions , Vologsky had always trod the path of least resistance , done the right things at the right times .
13 The babies were developing properly and being well stimulated and doing the right things at the right age and they were really coping well .
14 Or perhaps , not about the right things at the time or perhaps concentrating on .
15 Well I was hoping it 'd be interesting I mean I thought this was one of the key things at the training day I went to and I picked
16 Mm , oh , sort of international things at the
17 She 's got some stupid thing at the moment with , with a flip top of Thomas the Tank Engine .
18 Are you recording that stupid thing at the moment .
19 If you can imagine someone losing their job , the depression that actually causes , perhaps both within them and with their family , the idea of being able to take them away for a holiday to forget about things might be a good thing at the end of the day .
20 But I did n't like working at Johnny Walkers so I think it was quite a good thing at the time , although I did n't really like it I 'm glad now that it happened cos I 'd probably still be working in there .
21 People were on the streets being senselessly violent to the police , which I thought was a good thing at the time .
22 Our commercial mushrooms have no dirt , no bugs , no bits or pieces , no little growing things at the bottom of the box . ’
23 Well I feel that er protecting my income if I were to die would be the most important thing at the moment and er possibly er making some provision for my retirement .
24 ‘ It was the right thing at the right time .
25 ‘ Having the bump out the front was so obviously the right thing at the right time .
26 Yet on the other hand , for the counsellor to be too conscious of saying the right thing at the right time in every situation represents a state of mind that can only hamper the counselling process .
27 An officer 's doing the right thing at the right time is taken for granted .
28 I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time .
29 I thought it was the ones with the big things at the back like erm fans , but actually it 's erm but he really loves them .
30 Pull that yellow thing at the top back towards you .
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