Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you do not live with anyone else there is no one to nag you about smoking , drinking , eating too much , or eating the wrong things . |
| 2 | Or eating the wrong things ? |
| 3 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 4 | ‘ What is more embarrassing : using the wrong spoon , or saying the wrong thing in bed ? ’ |
| 5 | Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' . |
| 6 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 7 | Because syntax is embedded in discourse , entirely different forms might have similar functions ( i.e. be used as equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ) ; for this reason it is sometimes difficult to specify a principled way of knowing where to stop counting particular forms as variants of a variable . |
| 8 | This may be said to constitute evidence that the speaker views [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] as ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ . |
| 9 | The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS . |
| 10 | The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS . |
| 11 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 12 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 13 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 14 | If you do see a sign like that please , or any words that mean the same thing , like no refunds , no money refunded , no money refunded on sale goods any of those phrases , will you please let Trad your nearest Trading Standards Office know . |
| 15 | This enables several users to work simultaneously on the same document by locking on to the section relevant to them , rather than accessing the entire thing . |
| 16 | Fenna came offering now only love , huge steady love and joy and that seemed the hardest thing to resist . |
| 17 | Instead of saying , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing , ’ they might rush to the wardrobe and put on a T-shirt that says the same thing . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's also some element of poison pill , in that adding the other things makes it a little less attractive . ’ |
| 19 | So it was much easier if you had n't got a lot of money to fake some action , and produce some fake Boer war newsreels than to do the real thing . |
| 20 | There were several words that meant the same thing . |
| 21 | Nor lets the smallest thing evade his eyes . |
| 22 | On this definition , sexist language might not mean only expressions that exclude , insult or trivialise women , but also those that do the same thing to men . |
| 23 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 24 | In other words , rather than using a notepad and pen , you have the privilege of paying £100 for a piece of complicated electronics that does the same thing . |
| 25 | But presumably there were one or two great exponents around at that time that set the whole thing off ? |
| 26 | Often , the same bit of flimsy facetiousness gets disgorged with a frequency that suggests the whole thing is a product of some mechanically chortling Xerox machine . |
| 27 | I 'd put the phone down rather than say the wrong thing and have my brother wreck yet another piece of Post Office property . |
| 28 | Will you agree that we do that , rather than have the same thing coming up time after time . |
| 29 | ‘ You are what you eat ’ is a favourite maxim , and eating the right things is important in order to be healthy at every stage of life . |
| 30 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |