Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below- the-line activity in the US now takes 60 per cent of marketers ' expenditure , and it would be foolish to exclude the same thing happening here . |
| 2 | He 's quite willing to do the right thing by the girl . |
| 3 | It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own . |
| 4 | It was sometimes hard to find the right thing to say . |
| 5 | Were the Belfast and District Club just glad to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible ? |
| 6 | He would hardly be likely to say the same thing about Kylie . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's good to taste the real thing for once ; that vodka 's mostly water by now . ’ |
| 8 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 9 | It would be better to have the whole thing established as part of our Standing Orders , adopting one of the suggestions of the Select Committee on Procedure . |
| 10 | Yesterday things looked pretty hopeful but that it would n't take too long to get the whole thing sorted out , but I must admit things seem to be escalating and getting a lot worse now . |
| 11 | But we believe that company car drivers should be able to enjoy the finer things in life without being taxed to the hilt . |
| 12 | 3.14 There is a head of damage which is sometimes called the loss of amenities ; the man made blind by the accident will no longer be able to see the familiar things he has seen all his life ; the man who has had both legs removed and will never again go upon his walking excursions — things of that kind — loss of amenities ( per Birkett LJ in Manley v Rugby Portland Cement Co Ltd , a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1951 ) . |
| 13 | Oh well , if she was unwise enough to come to tea , Gina was unlikely to try the same thing again . |
| 14 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 15 | We can not all , as it already been emphasised by the last speaker we may not all be able to do the same things we have not all got the same gifts or the same responsibilities er within the church but you all have the same responsibilities in this light of God . |
| 16 | As Timothy told me , ‘ Whereas I was happy to laugh the whole thing off , Ken took these two old ladies very seriously . ’ |
| 17 | The fact that you can see as well as hear means that it is much more difficult to make the whole thing credible . |
| 18 | Arnie may be coining it with the Planet Hollywood eateries , but he 's still doing his best to do the right thing with the loss-making Schatzis in Santa Monica . |
| 19 | I ca n't say I was enamoured of the prospect of paying £150 entrance fee and about the same in annual subscription , but keen to do the right thing , I asked Robert Balfour , then Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and Dawyck Haig to propose and second me . |
| 20 | Well I do n't think they do because we 've got here some people who have done the er some people have done an hotel and I think it would be best to explain the whole thing to them |
| 21 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 22 | He was eager to do the right thing . |
| 23 | He 's also talking about adjusting the company 's prices upwards because it 's silly to change the same thing for one or hundred users . |