Example sentences of "[verb] and the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he 's attitude was in the end well if you do n't want the education as it comes , we 'll teach you the education that you want and the first thing was |
| 2 | The ends can be shaped and the whole thing cleaned up , but leave the top edge until the jointing is complete . |
| 3 | However , due to Perkins ' poor health , illness on the part of the tour 's organiser — and , I would hazard , a severe case of under-publicity afflicting the venues concerned — the gigs were poorly attended and the whole thing abandoned midway . |
| 4 | Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted . |
| 5 | But it had n't , not completely , and now she was beginning to have the feeling that all of the best chances had been narrowly missed and the whole thing was now starting to come apart again . |
| 6 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 7 | They say that first impressions count and the first thing you notice about the new Dan 486DX/50 is that it 's heavy . |
| 8 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 9 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 10 | That 's what John said last night , we er , all they , all went to bingo five of us went and it boomeranged well if you 're going I 'll come , if I 'm going you 're going I 'm going and the next thing poor old John had to go out and work look after about eleven kids |
| 11 | Next day Mr Vulcan arrived and the first thing he did was to call on everyone who owed money to his sister . |
| 12 | from escaping through the top and if you 're i if it 's a fa you know , there 's some light or disturbance you and want to sleep and the best thing to do is to go into a light doze cos , you know , you ca n't do much else that 's cover your face . |
| 13 | your own instinct about what is the sensible thing to do and the right thing to do in that incident and take charge , and you will just get on and do the very , very best that you can , you know what you need to do , you need to stop the bleeding , you know what the person needs , he needs medical aid quickly okay ? |
| 14 | Mr Maclean said : ‘ You have big companies here who are trying to compete and the one thing these companies want is a level playing field . ’ |
| 15 | I remember when I worked in Ninewells and the Queen Mother was coming and the same thing happened , the domestics had to work over time to clean up Ninewells which is a relatively new hospital . |
| 16 | It was blow-out , on the driver 's side , and erm , well we just lost it , the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall , |
| 17 | As it 's turned out , it 's not efficient because the the ray dome spent a tremendous amount of time moving from one country to the other , there 's no doubt about that and before production we would want to see that particular nonsense removed and the whole thing made a lot more efficient , but for one or two development batch ray domes then you know , they 'll just have to learn from that lesson . |
| 18 | Erm , this erm interchange will relieve a lot of the pressure on not only the that comes into but also the roundabout , one of the busiest roundabouts in the county , but I think the erm two of the notes were conservation areas the provision of a footpath I think and the other thing , in , I hope that will be considered because at least this new junction will draw up more traffic from the south and will be a great use to people there and it could well . |
| 19 | The driver reversed and the whole thing came away , dragged for a few feet by the car . |
| 20 | we are at the moment er going through er an experiment compost an experimental site where this is going on er near Hertford and erm we are obviously interested to see how that goes before that may , or may not , be extended and the second thing is that there has been a green cone experiment going on in conjunction with Welwyn Hatfield District whereby erm householders |
| 21 | If things go wrong inside a tin , gases build up and the contents swell and the whole thing explodes … |