Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 2 | Well here 's one man who is very definitely erm upside down about the whole thing , if I can just er tip him over a little bit there , could you , no I 'll try that one again will I |
| 3 | But this idea of ‘ purity ’ as something that needs preserving , by others , and for others , is quite different from a purity which needs finding , indeed which must be searched for , struggled for , hunted down as the precious thing it is . |
| 4 | A clenched fist , a frosty stare or a head-thrust , feet-planted , arms-akimbo posture , being recognizable as proper parts or adjuncts to acts of real violence , can stand in for the real thing in the ritualized ‘ aggression ’ to be described in a later chapter of this book . |
| 5 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 6 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 8 | Comes down to the same thing in the end . |
| 9 | Again , it all comes down to the vocal thing . |
| 10 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 11 | The Portuguese , Greek and Italians are in on the same thing too . |
| 12 | for the sake of the museums otherwise they would be t probably passed off as the real thing . |
| 13 | You could pass that off as the real thing . |
| 14 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 15 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 16 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 17 | For that you have to be up against the real thing . |
| 18 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 19 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 20 | But I get a woozy feeling when I watch them spoon away , and the plates , twenty or thirty of them — all fill up with the same thing … |
| 21 | On sale will be everything from MODELS of luxury cruisers … right up to the real thing . |
| 22 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 23 | All steamed up over the real thing . |
| 24 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 25 | Good social conditions , good living conditions , full employment , unified State and government , and order and security were the attributes , in that order , picked out as the best thing about National Socialism . |
| 26 | Finding out about the worthwhile things men in space can do is best done with a unified , if multi-faceted , programme . |
| 27 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 28 | For example , as the population becomes more mobile , miniature ID cards are no longer enough — passports are all the rage , especially since the immigration office ran out of the real thing . |
| 29 | That will generate two out of the three things we want , that 's the contract and the cheque all right ? |
| 30 | She was getting a kick out of the whole thing , I 'm sure of it : her big cow eyes were bright and she was all breathy when she talked about it . |