Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not going to go on to the things of the brain because we are going to do them further down the list . |
| 2 | would of hang on to the thing . |
| 3 | I 'm only looking , I have n't even got down to the thing yet . |
| 4 | I 'm going back to the thing about erm and boys and |
| 5 | Anyway , so that gets back to the thing over policy . |
| 6 | You 're running up to the thing , yeah ? |
| 7 | However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you ! |
| 8 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 9 | He was new and he joined after the project submission had gone in , but at a stage where it needed to be implemented and he sewed on to the thing straight away . |