Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must be punished for the wicked thing you did ’ ( The Times , 15 September 1991 ) . |
| 2 | Now , his songs are intended as the real thing , but widely assumed to be some sort of parody . |
| 3 | I gather you 've looked into the whole thing . ’ |
| 4 | because it 's all rolled into the same thing . |
| 5 | RESEARCH shows that as many as a third of all break-ins happen after entry has been gained through glass — often simply smashed with the nearest thing that comes to hand . |
| 6 | But for some people who 've dabbled in the real thing the effects have been fatal . |
| 7 | Always in a dream , cut off from the world — and forever being dreadfully wounded over the slightest thing . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe . |
| 9 | He did n't call her back , and when she turned he was sitting where she had left him , sprawled across the sofa surrounded by the solid things of his existence . |
| 10 | Attacked by the same thing that got Silk . |
| 11 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 12 | ‘ Now ’ , said my guide , ‘ you 've seen about the finest thing in corridors and new main line coaches , so come and have a look at our new Watford locals — the best locals , bar none , in the Kingdom ’ . |
| 13 | But at the moments you wish you were shot of the whole thing you know perfectly well that it 's precisely because you could n't endure to be without it , now you know about it , that you 've got to go through all this . |
| 14 | The argument was over Zack 's decision to close with the negotiator called Quinn and have done with the whole thing at two million dollars ransom . |
| 15 | ‘ It would have been better if he 'd killed me , and had done with the whole thing ! |
| 16 | Paintings which describe the natural world are indeed easiest for the critic to describe , since any observer can compare an object seen with the same thing depicted . |
| 17 | ‘ Why ? ’ asked Antony , with a polite interest which ten minutes later had turned into the real thing . |
| 18 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 19 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 20 | Even her voice , detached from the funny things she said , was like honey and gravel stones all mixed up . |
| 21 | and see what you 've done to the poor thing . |
| 22 | Turtle , venison and turbot are named among the good things — provided mainly , it seems , by Joseph Cradock , who had done the same for the LNU at its opening at Harborough in 1809 . |
| 23 | ‘ You have to go through your egocentricities , you have to become so absorbed by the whole thing until you reach the point where you say , ‘ No , get those sequins away from me ! |
| 24 | so , so that everybody 's threatened by the same thing so that |
| 25 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 26 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 27 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 28 | I 've just thought of the perfect thing to lend you . ’ |
| 29 | So it was a very happy Pow-wow the next week , when Trusty told of the exciting thing that had happened and that the Pack would be able to meet every week in Farmer Olinton 's loft . |
| 30 | Each week we have to listen to mystery hand drills and various bangs and hammerings as the Jamesons get increasingly excited about the whole thing . |