Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Space will have to be regarded as a primary thing with matter derived from it . ’ |
| 2 | This is regarded as a Good Thing by Orcs who are universally content with their lot , being ultimately happy to meet their end in battle so long as they get a chance of a good fight . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about a single thing . ’ |
| 4 | Trapped like a guilty thing between them , Frankie lowered his head and took another bite from his worm-cake . |
| 5 | Now can we think of a famous thing that sometimes appears in space ? |
| 6 | What made you think of a tender thing to say ? |
| 7 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 8 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 9 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 10 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |
| 11 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 12 | They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense . |
| 13 | Yeah but Russia did n't case Russia intervened as a pro-liberal thing . |
| 14 | So , from the dominant parliamentary perspective the Left takes the British constitution for granted as a good thing , and from the insurrectionary perspective the Left sees the British constitution ( if it sees it at all ) as beyond the pale of reasoned consideration and change . |
| 15 | Which could be seen as a good thing ; after all , in the eyes of sceptical guitarists the GR-1 could stand or fall on its immediate user-friendly appeal . |
| 16 | Another problem is that he does not deal with the fact that an ‘ intent to harm ’ may itself be ambiguous : in certain contexts , it may be seen as a good thing , in others as bad . |
| 17 | Localism is seen as a good thing in itself . |
| 18 | On another level policies are not irrational and their disjointed character is not seen as a bad thing by the apologists of incrementalism . |
| 19 | Well I think it was made of a squidgy thing . |
| 20 | That suddenly felt like a terrible thing . |
| 21 | The little frog was definitely gazing hard in Maud 's direction , and when it saw Enid turn to look , it began jumping up and down and croaking like a mad thing . |
| 22 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 23 | If a given thing x is related to a given thing y , it is argued , this must be seen as having to do with the intrinsic nature of x , and the intrinsic nature of x can , in the final analysis , be fully understood only as a feature of the whole to which it and everything else belongs . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm slightly worried about people who adopt as a standard things that have n't been implemented . |
| 25 | Because they know that to do so makes smoking look like a grown-up thing to do … at the moment people are being encouraged to smoke and I regard that as an immoral activity . ’ |
| 26 | Far from letting go , he wrestled like a mad thing , kicking out with his boots and laughing like a maniac when the branch flicked across her throat and drew blood . |
| 27 | It was bad enough having to do every single bit of the work , rushing like a mad thing because the person who was meant to help you could n't stop talking . |
| 28 | Get help , ’ and then he scrambled up the bank and raced like a wild thing , screaming now , ‘ Bernard ! |
| 29 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 30 | Strangely enough I think this leads to a chicken-egg thing with us . |