Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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1 | Erm I did n't write down the other things that you mentioned as we were going through that were n't on this list . |
2 | They also played the same games in the playground , and when a group had the same work in class , everybody would whisper or signal the answer to everyone else , + everyone put down the same things , whether right or wrong ! |
3 | Leave some of the batter off the fish as well ; • If you are eating a pizza or pie do not feel duty-bound to finish off the whole thing . |
4 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
5 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
6 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
7 | Makes up the usual thing ! |
8 | Well , because we have a very flexible course , a modular course which is made up of units , it 's , it 's possible to almost fit anybody into our course , so in fact she 's met one of our specialists and the analysis had been done of what she 's done before , what she wants to do in the future to try and match up the whole thing ; only she knows exactly what she 's doing . |
9 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
10 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
11 | Er you need to have a much more all round variety of exercise to build up the different things . |
12 | If the countries of the EC all give up national power and pass it to the European level , are they all giving up the same thing ? |
13 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
14 | I 'm terrible let me rub out the entire thing and start all over again , yeah ? |
15 | We congratulate him on spelling out the good things that we shall be offering . |
16 | I know funerals bring out the good things |
17 | Erm , we 're there we 're sorting that out the other thing is you see grandma will have to go shopping tomorrow . |
18 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
19 | So they w they came out of this working man 's club on top of this hill pulled out the whole thing and all the balls rolled out . |
20 | From a general mass of information I can usually pick out the precise thing I 'm looking for |
21 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
22 | Demirel maintained that " when putting this fire out the important thing is to approach the regional people with sympathy and affection " . |
23 | To carry out the same thing with battleships was a very different matter and the collision the officers had foreseen duly occurred . |
24 | and when we got it back the flipping thing wo n't play at all |
25 | It is important because if you do buy something from a shop and realize there 's something wrong with it , if you take it back the first thing the shop would say to you is can I see your receipt ? |
26 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
27 | ‘ Because you 're a landlord , I suppose , ’ I said , holding back the next thing I had been going to say and then deciding he might not mind . |