Example sentences of "[adj] thing at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They swarmed up Parkside and boarded buses bound for Putney , shouting unpleasant things at the driver-conductor . |
| 2 | And tomorrow , she 's going to this thing at the chapel . |
| 3 | Er you 're going on this thing at the end of the month ? |
| 4 | The reference to a proposed parachute operation is strange , because there is no evidence that Stirling was planning any such thing at the time , yet the correspondence is dated 30 and 31 December 1941 , when Stirling was in the desert . |
| 5 | Mother is ill and the doctor says we must give her these things at the end of the letter , but we have n't got enough money to get them . |
| 6 | They are such buy little things at the weekends . |
| 7 | About this little thing at the back of the eye ? |
| 8 | Was that considered a hard thing at the time ? |
| 9 | Oh , they said how heroic he was and the headmaster said all the right things at the school memorial service . |
| 10 | Or perhaps , not about the right things at the time or perhaps concentrating on . |
| 11 | Well I was hoping it 'd be interesting I mean I thought this was one of the key things at the training day I went to and I picked |
| 12 | He himself , he says , does ‘ not belong to the party that would condemn the common and familiar ways of speaking ’ , according to which we know many things at the level of appearances , such as that I am now seated rather than standing , and that fire appears hot rather than cold . |
| 13 | You have taken on far too much and are trying to do too many things at the double . |
| 14 | She 's got some stupid thing at the moment with , with a flip top of Thomas the Tank Engine . |
| 15 | Are you recording that stupid thing at the moment . |
| 16 | But I did n't like working at Johnny Walkers so I think it was quite a good thing at the time , although I did n't really like it I 'm glad now that it happened cos I 'd probably still be working in there . |
| 17 | People were on the streets being senselessly violent to the police , which I thought was a good thing at the time . |
| 18 | If you can imagine someone losing their job , the depression that actually causes , perhaps both within them and with their family , the idea of being able to take them away for a holiday to forget about things might be a good thing at the end of the day . |
| 19 | Our commercial mushrooms have no dirt , no bugs , no bits or pieces , no little growing things at the bottom of the box . ’ |
| 20 | is when I first raised my question on that with all those things at the back of my mind , I was n't finding that as we used to get it |
| 21 | Well I feel that er protecting my income if I were to die would be the most important thing at the moment and er possibly er making some provision for my retirement . |
| 22 | It may not be the first thing at the top of our minds when we 're , when we 're checking the thing but I think it ought to be checked for that . |
| 23 | I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time . |
| 24 | Why that thing at the front , that 's a pretty arrangement . |
| 25 | I thought it was the ones with the big things at the back like erm fans , but actually it 's erm but he really loves them . |
| 26 | Pull that yellow thing at the top back towards you . |
| 27 | ‘ He stole the cab , drove it up Charing Cross Road then aimed the fucking thing at the fountains outside Centre Point . |
| 28 | SAGITTARIUS You are into doing your own thing at the moment and exploring your own creativity . |
| 29 | At the end of each week you can then add up your total time and compare your planned and achieved time to measure your progress ; and you can do the same thing at the end of 30 days . |
| 30 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |