Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 2 | And as you ladies and gentlemen now are thinking of retiring as I have done the least thing you want to be bothered about is rules and regulations . |
| 3 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 4 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 5 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 8 | He 's done the same thing with the torture scene . |
| 9 | Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing . |
| 10 | The fact that we 've both done the same thing — I was an actress although I 'm a writer now — is totally unimportant . |
| 11 | But I 've , what I 'm saying Rod is I 've done the same thing |
| 12 | No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field . |
| 13 | I 've had Banville thoroughly checked out , and I know he 's stayed at two other hotels on the island and done the same thing . ’ |
| 14 | They 've done the same thing . |
| 15 | And her sister who lives next door but one from her mums , she done the same thing . |
| 16 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 17 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 18 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 19 | He 's only thirty-four , and he 's done the same thing all over the Far East , taking over struggling and usually amateur or pirate radio stations like this one once was , and putting in people like me who pull commercial sponsorship because we draw listeners . |
| 20 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 21 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 22 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 23 | It appears we 've done the same thing with the brick and the flints . |
| 24 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 25 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 26 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 27 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 28 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 29 | A footballer done the same thing . |
| 30 | And had Rohmer really felt the same thing ? |