Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] thing [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trainee chef Tom Wilkinson , 20 , said : ‘ The action sequences were entertaining and I rated the whole thing as pretty good . ’ |
| 2 | Some people thought plastic plates were tacky , but if you used the real thing once you got over a certain number you just had endless mess afterwards . |
| 3 | Er , I used not to do that , I used to put everything in one list , and then my home telephone was cut off one time , er , because I just never regarded the personal things as being terribly important until , you know , I do n't have to pay well over a hundred quid to get the thing fixed again . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , well , as to that — it seemed the sensible thing if Rohan wanted to be master of La Tour Monchauzet . |
| 5 | I did look at the plans , and a book on sled dog training , and promptly forgot the whole thing until reminded two or three weeks before the promised delivery date . |
| 6 | We heard the same thing when the Labour Government introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970 . |
| 7 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 8 | I suddenly hit the grey thing and it fell back against the tree . |
| 9 | And erm , they recorded different things , but Mat but also they recorded the same things as well |
| 10 | ‘ She felt the only thing that made the company work was good design and hard work , nothing else . |
| 11 | He thought your freelance Mrs Howard represented the same thing that he thinks he represents himself : the defence of this country . |
| 12 | So Gabriel sang the first thing that came into his head — loudly : |
| 13 | We discussed the whole thing and i said there was absolutely no point at all . |
| 14 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 15 | At roughly the same time Adobe Systems introduced the PostScript page description language which did the one thing that had been though impossible or , at least , impractical ; real time font generation . |
| 16 | Although they are cross with themselves for being so soft , in the end they discover that they did the right thing because it is Gollum who shows them the way to Mount Doom , and Gollum who finally disposes of the Ring . |
| 17 | Theodora did the correct thing and remarked on Bedford 's good looks . |
| 18 | As a small boy , he did the usual things that boys do . |
| 19 | Good old Dad , however , did the decent thing and the binoculars were mine . |
| 20 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 21 | Feeling unusually low and depressed from a bout of hay fever , Johnson did the natural thing and reached for a couple of Reactivins . |
| 22 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 23 | I did the same things when we did |
| 24 | The idea that dinosaurs simply radiated into the ecological niches that had already been vacated , and that mammals I 30 million or so years later did the same thing after the dinosaurs had departed , has profound philosophical implications . |
| 25 | It was the first big opera he 'd conducted and he just did n't know how to do that , how to pace himself Incidentally he did the same thing when we recorded Peter Grimes and Reggie had to come in and help finish the recording . |
| 26 | Eventually , I did the sensible thing and consulted everyone who had planted trees recently in the neighbourhood . |
| 27 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 28 | She had Oz by the shoulder and Jinny , tumbling nearly into her arms , said the first thing that came into her head . |
| 29 | I could hardly believe it , and said the first thing that came into my head . |
| 30 | Tweed said the first thing that came into his head . |