Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made the whole thing up from the start |
| 2 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 3 | ‘ I choked the dirty thing , ’ said Nour , ‘ and threw it in the street for the dogs . ’ |
| 4 | But I got the main thing off a , off a TV programme . |
| 5 | ‘ I got the whole thing up and running . |
| 6 | I got the whole thing under control . |
| 7 | Trainee chef Tom Wilkinson , 20 , said : ‘ The action sequences were entertaining and I rated the whole thing as pretty good . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You have been very clever — in fact , too clever ’ and the goodie saying , ‘ Kill me , but let the girl go ’ must be taken as read , but Casaubon does not fail to intone after the not tremendously exciting climax , ‘ Maybe I imagined the whole thing . ’ |
| 9 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 10 | ‘ So about a year ago I knocked the whole thing on the head . |
| 11 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 12 | I watched the whole thing . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , boy , ’ he mused as I hefted the heavy thing , ‘ these coins are excessively rare . |
| 14 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 15 | I saw the whole thing slowly take shape . |
| 16 | where I mucked the whole thing up trying to get the |
| 17 | I gathered the little thing into my arms and she pressed against me . |
| 18 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought the whole thing was pretty unfair . |
| 21 | I thought the whole thing had been a set-up — to get rid of the old President and his Communist allies . |
| 22 | I thought the whole thing was out of control . |
| 23 | Chief executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ I thought the whole thing was a disgrace . |
| 24 | I took the small thing out of his hand . |
| 25 | I dreamt the whole thing , and it was so real . |
| 26 | Hope I did the right thing . |
| 27 | I did the right thing , he told himself , renting that flat . |
| 28 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
| 29 | Hope I did the right thing ? ’ |
| 30 | I do n't know if I did the right thing , either . |