Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ The campaign is being organised to mirror the real thing . |
| 2 | ‘ Then all I can say is that if that was make-believe I ca n't wait to sample the real thing ! ’ |
| 3 | It has to resemble the real thing as done in the fields . |
| 4 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |
| 5 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 6 | The Corporation wants to do the right thing by you . ’ |
| 7 | Binton 's vicar , the Rev Peter Williams , said last night : ‘ I understand his family want to keep the whole thing private . |
| 8 | I want to think the whole thing through , very carefully , while I 'm in Cheltenham . |
| 9 | They 're smart , the place is well maintained , and I think anything we can do to support the general thing there , and certainly the Ottery youth there is , is , is money well spent . |
| 10 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 11 | In this contriving to do the obvious thing in a way not altogether obvious will lie the difference between producing a run-of-the-mill story , which may well never see the light of day , and producing a story with that something extra . |
| 12 | ‘ I think you have decided to do the right thing , ’ said Holmes . |
| 13 | And tourists do n't always want to hear the authentic thing , so the local musicians end up having to reflect their audience . |
| 14 | You 'd want to play the damn thing all the time . |
| 15 | Look , are you going to do the sensible thing for once and come in out of the rain ? |
| 16 | I 'd like to do the real thing . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We will make it a nice picnic , ’ she said , in the spirit of the penitent who intends to do the wicked thing she had first thought of but will also do something pleasant to make it slightly less reprehensible . |
| 18 | Right so on on top of all this , we 've actually got as Sue 's mentioned quite a few times , we 've actually got to keep the damn thing afloat , well after introducing all this . |
| 19 | I just got me coal and I was looking solvent and I 've only got so many weeks and I 've got to empty the stupid thing again . |
| 20 | There are a few like myself , who look as if they wished they were n't there , and would like to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 22 | So it all depends how you different people different personalities and that and erm right though I do n't agree with them at all what they 've done , erm as I said , If I do n't speak or if we do n't whatsit we going to ruin the whole thing we 're fighting for . |
| 23 | These kinds of problems lead to difficulties in keeping everything indexed and in the right order , and that is obviously going to make the whole thing farcical sometimes from the children 's point of view . |
| 24 | Mount cutting is a skilled job , so it is advisable to practise on some offcuts of mounting board before attempting to cut the real thing . |
| 25 | ‘ Look — I do n't want to blight the whole thing before we start , but — suppose we fail ? |
| 26 | Hard to explain this , but I think I 'm beginning to like the wretched thing . ’ |
| 27 | I like to see the right thing being done . |
| 28 | This is where you get to wrap the whole thing up . ’ |
| 29 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |
| 30 | Even when he was being particularly careful not to offend , he seemed to manage to say the wrong thing . |