Example sentences of "[v-ing] 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 | Semi-contact sparring at a martial arts club is an excellent way of simulating the real thing . |
| 4 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 5 | I think it could have been even more positive by using the whole thing to sell Canberra 's food , food handling courses . |
| 6 | That 's quite ludicrous , why should they shoot themselves in the foot and is Mr seriously suggesting the same thing ? |
| 7 | Stok said , ‘ Baltic Military District GRU are handling the whole thing . |
| 8 | Just because some of them do n't know their arse from their elbow does n't mean that we 're not bringing the whole thing under control . ’ |
| 9 | Did n't realize you were bringing the whole thing . |
| 10 | ‘ You are what you eat ’ is a favourite maxim , and eating the right things is important in order to be healthy at every stage of life . |
| 11 | Again he 's probably not eating the right things . |
| 12 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 13 | When you do not live with anyone else there is no one to nag you about smoking , drinking , eating too much , or eating the wrong things . |
| 14 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 15 | Or eating the wrong things ? |
| 16 | She laughs and says he means no harm , and is incapable of seeing the essential things we know and keep safe , and so it is , so it must be , so it must always be . |
| 17 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 18 | Of course , it 's always there , but the walls and towers appear to have moved when they were not being watched , or maybe they are in the same place , but the adventurers are n't seeing the same thing all the time . |
| 19 | We can ask , for instance , whether it enjoys any or all of the experiences , ‘ seeing the same thing moving ’ , ‘ seeing one thing being replaced by another ’ , ‘ seeing a thing of a particular shape ’ , and ‘ seeing a thing being transformed into another ’ . |
| 20 | There will be broad scholarly interest simply in seeing the whole thing together and in reuniting certain pairs or groups of paintings which were conceived together but which have not been seen together in the past . |
| 21 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 22 | If you compare when we first came to Harlow , which is only twenty years ago , the possession of a television set , erm was only just becoming the normal thing |
| 23 | If Shadows and would-be Shadows started behaving like members of a government , there 'd be a greater chance of them becoming the real thing . |
| 24 | The only thing is , is keeping the bloody thing clean ! |
| 25 | Let me ask him , he 's driving the damn thing |
| 26 | At the annual meeting in 1961 there was sharp criticism of an ‘ out of date ’ programme and by 1964 there was talk of winding the whole thing up because it just could n't pay its way . |
| 27 | Well no , Mr is sort of co-ordinating the whole thing |
| 28 | read it because you can do a lot of damage pressing the wrong things . |
| 29 | Er er er so so we 've got lots of opportunity for er getting the name in front of young people , promoting design and technology and the engineering concept , getting these kids working on something that 's real and live , erm and generally promoting the whole thing . |
| 30 | 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 . |