Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 2 | Binton 's vicar , the Rev Peter Williams , said last night : ‘ I understand his family want to keep the whole thing private . |
| 3 | I want to think the whole thing through , very carefully , while I 'm in Cheltenham . |
| 4 | As Alexander was often heard to say — if you stop doing the wrong thing , then the right thing will emerge naturally . |
| 5 | I like to see the right thing being done . |
| 6 | This is where you get to wrap the whole thing up . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I like to eat a lot and because I do , I like to eat the right things . |
| 8 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 9 | I like to rehearse the bad things so that I 'll know how to behave when they really happen . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If you try to sell the whole thing to the private sector , they wo n't take it . |
| 11 | Yet it seems they keep doing the wrong thing at the wrong time , according to the papers . |
| 12 | Just try doing the normal things . |
| 13 | " I keep saying the wrong things . |
| 14 | Owen : That 's what we were thinking , not detention … but why should the people who misbehave have the nice things here like pool and table tennis ? |
| 15 | So I do know the different things that do make people feel either a little bit better or might just help them . |
| 16 | What makes the commentators on man-godhood and related themes misleading , why they fail to evoke the real thing , is that they suggest an object which is stable and personal ( as opposed to volatile and transpersonal ) . |
| 17 | Taken to an extreme , driving and flight simulators aim to duplicate the real thing exactly and if used repetitively they could assess changes due to daily rhythms . |
| 18 | ‘ But , oh , I do cherish the little things you tell me … the things he laughs at , the way he strides out with pride . |
| 19 | Would they shake hands and agree to forget the whole thing were he to do so ? |
| 20 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 21 | You ca n't possibly , under these circumstances , start thinking the whole thing out again . |
| 22 | I still care about the chimps ; I 've met the flipping things ’ . ’ |
| 23 | Well let's think about it once more I know you 've done the correct thing cos I 've just looked . |
| 24 | It sticks in my throat that you know we 've had to pay it but , from the point of view of the residents , we 've done the right thing by letting it . |
| 25 | So I think we 've done the right thing . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing . |
| 27 | I 'm not sure if I 've done the right thing . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sick but I still think I 've done the right thing . |
| 29 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 30 | I 'm thrilled you 've done the decent thing — ’ |