Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] thing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's good to taste the real thing for once ; that vodka 's mostly water by now . ’ |
| 2 | More and more people are choosing one company to handle the whole thing for them . |
| 3 | Look , are you going to do the sensible thing for once and come in out of the rain ? |
| 4 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 5 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 6 | This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough . |
| 7 | Well Kerry 's going to do the same thing for twenty four . |
| 8 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |
| 9 | For the er we 'd really like to do the same thing for the whole weapons system with Eurofighter also but the the premium that eurofighter might demand to cover the risk . |
| 10 | He 's also talking about adjusting the company 's prices upwards because it 's silly to change the same thing for one or hundred users . |
| 11 | The laws governing politics , says Morgenthau , have not changed through the years , and they enable the Realist to ascertain the rational thing for a national leader to do in any circumstances . |