Example sentences of "[pron] [be] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am half hidden in my bower , I am the last thing she sees , so I have time to examine her . |
| 2 | I 'm the best thing in your life |
| 3 | ( I 'm the best thing in your life ) |
| 4 | about I 'm the best thing in your life But |
| 5 | I 'm the real thing ’ . |
| 6 | I 'm the biggest thing that ever happened in sports . |
| 7 | Now , I did n't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread . |
| 8 | I do n't know erm possibly it is something to do with policy , actually that was n't what I was the main thing I was ringing about . |
| 9 | I was the last thing which I had anticipated , and the last thing which I sought . |
| 10 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |
| 11 | Even Xerox 's Ventura , which is the closest thing yet to TechDoc in a desktop publishing package , is only just beginning to tackle the problem of networking . |
| 12 | I tried not to think about it , which is the only thing to do in such a situation . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She wants him to ask her to get married and he wants her to give up her job , which is the only thing she 's ever wanted to do . |
| 14 | But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in . |
| 15 | ‘ The twins are so happy now , which is the only thing that matters . |
| 16 | Thanks for a great mag , which is the first thing I grab on my trips home , being a subscriber ! |
| 17 | He is so different from the others , from Terry and Havvie ; he loves me truly for myself , which is the best thing of all , not because I am Papa 's rich daughter , the King 's friend . |
| 18 | We co we 've tried to pull , but if you pull all the , swap the the leads round or shove the brush leads round which is the obvious thing to do in that case , you know , er in that no they 're successfully sparking excessively . |
| 19 | It is knowing that you are capable enough which is the difficult thing . |
| 20 | To ask them , and equally ( or even more ) to wave them away absentmindedly like circling insects , is to greet the novel , to respond to its personality which is the same thing as the tonal area colonized by the novelist for his present purpose . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're avoiding the truth , which is the same thing . |
| 22 | ‘ I say what 's happening with the Bloods and the Crips is the same thing that 's happening with the protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland , which is the same thing that 's happening in South Africa where different tribes fight each other . |
| 23 | ‘ Before you can convict you must he satisfied so that you feel sure — which is the same thing as being satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the defendant 's guilt . ’ |
| 24 | This epiphany of the mother of the immediate-return hunter-gatherers — or of the new-born and unweaned child , which is the same thing — was clearly designed to compensate for her loss in reality . |
| 25 | it was gorgeous but Chris was saying that Tescos do one , but they call it passion cake which is the same thing |
| 26 | now possible to deprive many a patient of a fulfilment of the wish to have a death of one 's own , the scene Dr. Rynearson ( whose work he is discussing ) describes is one of patients with an ‘ untreatable ’ disease being kept alive indefinitely by means of tubes inserted into their stomachs , or into their veins , or into their bladders , or into their rectums — and the whole sad scene thus created encompassed within a cocoon of oxygen which is the next thing to a shroud . |
| 27 | You 'll find you soon get through the day that way , and you 're occupied all the time which is the important thing . ’ |
| 28 | They get better when foods are eliminated from the diet — and they stay better , which is the important thing . |
| 29 | But we wan na stay where we are , 'cos it allows us to put records out , it allows us to plod along , which is the important thing for us at the moment . |
| 30 | ‘ We wan na stay where we are , it allows us to plod along , which is the important thing for us at the moment ’ — Paul ‘ Ambitious ’ Yeadon |