Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I mean , I think that we had a big discussion at the last area committee on the scheme and the problem was of course that the detailed plans er , for the consultation erm to the , I 'm at , I 'm a bit worried that at this late stage there 's this new idea of of building on the green wedge at the back and I would n't like to think that the scheme should be delayed the important thing , it seems to me , is that it should press ahead and |
| 2 | I wondered if Harvey had arranged the whole thing , betrayed me to Stok . |
| 3 | So I can now move on to the next page which is the growth we 're proposing , given the saving , given the splendid things that are allowed by the erm , by the . |
| 4 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 5 | She 'd been set up and she had thought Fernando was so desperate to have her back in his life that he had manipulated the whole thing . |
| 6 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 7 | of of this secrecy that 's apparently surrounded the whole thing . |
| 8 | And everyone in the press was saying how they had won the fucking thing already . |
| 9 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
| 10 | I had forgotten the other thing that Neil had told me . |
| 11 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 12 | ‘ We have cracked the hard things , ’ says Trish Richmond . |
| 13 | I still care about the chimps ; I 've met the flipping things ’ . ’ |
| 14 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 15 | erm About five years after I started it , I think everything was , was growing up , and erm I have n't done the major things recently , I 'm just doing gentle management . |
| 16 | Having done the honourable thing , the Emperor now felt himself free and thus it was that on 15 January 1853 he wrote formally to Eugénie 's mother , requesting the hand of her daughter in marriage . |
| 17 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 18 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although he lacked any deep personal convictions , Vologsky had always trod the path of least resistance , done the right things at the right times . |
| 21 | Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things . |
| 22 | Citroen 's design director Art Blakeslee thought the company had done the right thing with Activa II . |
| 23 | Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams . |
| 24 | The ministers concerned must have congratulated themselves that politically at least they had done the right thing by ignoring the environmental bodies and promising eight-lane motorways and an expenditure of £12.4 billion to ensure that 1992 does not leave Britain stuck in a permanent traffic jam . |
| 25 | No , she had done the right thing in ignoring the invitation to luncheon . |
| 26 | The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions . |
| 27 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
| 28 | After two weeks he had begun to wonder if he had done the right thing . |
| 29 | Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing . |
| 30 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |