Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to wear the wretched thing after all , just to give a talking-point . |
| 2 | In a way it functioned for us like window shopping : a random five minute slice of a feature would enable us to decide whether to see the whole thing at the Shoals , Princess or Majestic in Florence , when it resurfaced there . |
| 3 | But we believe that company car drivers should be able to enjoy the finer things in life without being taxed to the hilt . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's good to taste the real thing for once ; that vodka 's mostly water by now . ’ |
| 5 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 6 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 7 | When therefore he arrived home late on Friday night to find the grey thing with ears like knitted dishcloths in his favourite chair he was displeased . |
| 8 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 9 | ‘ If you try to sell the whole thing to the private sector , they wo n't take it . |
| 10 | I it 's to cover the other things like doing the book keeping , |
| 11 | The same principle , looked at from its negative side , may be thus stated : There is no person or body of persons who can , under the English constitution , make rules which override or derogate from an Act of Parliament , or which ( to express the same thing in other words ) will be enforced by the courts in contravention of an Act of Parliament . |
| 12 | Time for the children ( and those young at heart ) to experience the real thing in our special ‘ explore ’ vehicles . |
| 13 | Notebooks out plagiarists while I reveal the secret of NME 's enduring success : some music papers have been good at treating Rock as An Art Form , others have been great at capturing the essential triviality , sensuality and sheer stupidity of pop ; NME , when it 's been at its best , has managed to combine the two things without going stark staring schizo-bonkers . |
| 14 | I could n't believe the bookies were giving 9/1 for Leeds to win the whole thing on Sat. morning . |
| 15 | More and more people are choosing one company to handle the whole thing for them . |
| 16 | The problem for the hungry animal is to distinguish the former from the latter , and only to put the edible things in its mouth . |
| 17 | Stay with the man , watching him , waiting hour after hour , until eventually the man has to give in and say something to draw the whole thing to a close . |
| 18 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 19 | Arnie may be coining it with the Planet Hollywood eateries , but he 's still doing his best to do the right thing with the loss-making Schatzis in Santa Monica . |
| 20 | The Corporation wants to do the right thing by you . ’ |
| 21 | He 's quite willing to do the right thing by the girl . |
| 22 | He was only a boy , hardly out of drama school and scared stiff and , by the time he 'd pulled himself together and gone back to do the right thing by her , the girl had disappeared . |
| 23 | The conventional view is that the body — somehow — tells these altruistic cells to do the honourable thing by activating a suicide programme . |
| 24 | Look , are you going to do the sensible thing for once and come in out of the rain ? |
| 25 | In this contriving to do the obvious thing in a way not altogether obvious will lie the difference between producing a run-of-the-mill story , which may well never see the light of day , and producing a story with that something extra . |
| 26 | And it saved you hav it saved you having to do the preliminary thing of saying dear whoever you are |
| 27 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 28 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 29 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 30 | I would like to do the same thing to them |