Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 2 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 3 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 4 | ‘ Because you 're a landlord , I suppose , ’ I said , holding back the next thing I had been going to say and then deciding he might not mind . |
| 5 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 6 | To carry out the same thing with battleships was a very different matter and the collision the officers had foreseen duly occurred . |
| 7 | If the countries of the EC all give up national power and pass it to the European level , are they all giving up the same thing ? |
| 8 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
| 9 | So they w they came out of this working man 's club on top of this hill pulled out the whole thing and all the balls rolled out . |
| 10 | Leave some of the batter off the fish as well ; • If you are eating a pizza or pie do not feel duty-bound to finish off the whole thing . |
| 11 | Well , because we have a very flexible course , a modular course which is made up of units , it 's , it 's possible to almost fit anybody into our course , so in fact she 's met one of our specialists and the analysis had been done of what she 's done before , what she wants to do in the future to try and match up the whole thing ; only she knows exactly what she 's doing . |
| 12 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 13 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 14 | From a general mass of information I can usually pick out the precise thing I 'm looking for |
| 15 | Makes up the usual thing ! |
| 16 | I 'm terrible let me rub out the entire thing and start all over again , yeah ? |