Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Parents may think the best thing to do with a nervous child is to tell him or her not to worry . |
| 2 | Erm I , I 'd like to see what Peter would like to see actually , I think we ought to see the whole thing done in one fell swoop . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to wear the wretched thing after all , just to give a talking-point . |
| 4 | In fact ‘ Kubla ’ was the name of their drinking- can , and the pun may strike some people as near-sacrilege ; others may consider the whole thing quite trivial . |
| 5 | Just a desperate imitation of what he must think the real thing 's like . |
| 6 | You should make the important thing the most important item on your agenda , number two . |
| 7 | A voice says , ‘ You must throw the black thing away . |
| 8 | Some parents worry that rewarding good behaviour is a type of bribery , and believe that a child should do the right thing as a matter of course , simply because it is right . |
| 9 | As he prided himself on his fair and honest trading , and the high standards which he always maintained except in extenuating circumstances , the ginger-haired totter had decided he should do the right thing by her . |
| 10 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 11 | Maybe you should do the same thing . ’ |
| 12 | Tonight he must face the very thing he had always dreaded . |
| 13 | One solution is to assume that , since all men are in their most basic attributes ultimately alike and use similar mental processes , then they must mean the same things when they employ the same symbols and metaphors . |
| 14 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 15 | Let's do the next thing . |
| 16 | At least your writing to us may prevent the same thing happening to another reader . |
| 17 | However , someone seeing you may do the same thing using a crude ‘ dead man ’ to hold the fuselage upright . |
| 18 | and it 'll throw the whole thing . |
| 19 | John Coffin , she felt sure , would not ; he might think the same things , but would not say them in that way . |
| 20 | She would support McAllister 's idea to prettify the baby clothes ; it might make the poor things feel happier and that someone really cared about them . |
| 21 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 22 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 23 | By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing . |
| 24 | He said he instantly dismissed Miss Dixon after she displayed a hostile attitude and claimed she might do the same thing again . |
| 25 | People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says , ‘ if you keep a lot of rules I 'll reward you , and if you do n't I 'll do the other thing . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm sure you 'll do The Right Thing . ’ |
| 27 | Do you think , you see you 've got to get another bloke and bloody great , he 'll do the same thing . |
| 28 | And she thought Alan might suspect the wrong thing . ’ |
| 29 | You 'll see the bleeding thing come now . |
| 30 | ‘ You better be telling me the truth , ’ he said threateningly , ‘ or I 'll use the fucking thing on you . ’ |