Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition Members are desperately struggling to find every conceivable thing to carp at , because they know that the scheme will be relatively speedy to introduce and that it will work effectively . |
| 2 | ‘ Still , I have seven mediums who appear to see the same thing , with variations , of course — seven people will always see an event differently . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ The campaign is being organised to mirror the real thing . |
| 4 | ‘ Then all I can say is that if that was make-believe I ca n't wait to sample the real thing ! ’ |
| 5 | It has to resemble the real thing as done in the fields . |
| 6 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Corporation wants to do the right thing by you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 11 | And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing . |
| 12 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 13 | And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing . |
| 14 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 15 | The Czechoslovak voucher scheme , which will apportion shares in state enterprises to the general public , was received with scepticism by the Poles ( who want to do the same thing a different way ) and with disdain by the Hungarians ( who think state enterprises should simply be sold ) . |
| 16 | Binton 's vicar , the Rev Peter Williams , said last night : ‘ I understand his family want to keep the whole thing private . |
| 17 | I want to think the whole thing through , very carefully , while I 'm in Cheltenham . |
| 18 | I want some Diet Coke , I want to get a massive thing of Diet Coke . |
| 19 | But also I want to stop a bad thing . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 22 | You get fed up with everybody wanting to know every bloody thing about you . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I think you have decided to do the right thing , ’ said Holmes . |
| 25 | When Vivien appeared on the set badly made-up , with her wig perched ridiculously high on her head and refusing to alter a single thing , Asher reluctantly called Olivier and told him of the problems . |
| 26 | soc : And I suppose you 'd like more of the same so you can go on pinpointing variation and replicate the studies which have been done to show the same thing in different places , or maybe to include a few more explanatory variables in your statistical model ? |
| 27 | And tourists do n't always want to hear the authentic thing , so the local musicians end up having to reflect their audience . |
| 28 | You 'd want to play the damn thing all the time . |
| 29 | I would like to see the same thing happen to them . ’ |
| 30 | Look , are you going to do the sensible thing for once and come in out of the rain ? |