Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Comes down to the same thing in the end . |
| 4 | Again , it all comes down to the vocal thing . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | On sale will be everything from MODELS of luxury cruisers … right up to the real thing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Like , we get literally hundreds of calls on Friday and Saturday nights and we 're sending vehicles out to the same thing every time . |
| 9 | It does n't matter , it comes out to the same thing . |
| 10 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 11 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 12 | There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form . |
| 13 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 14 | And it 's one that needs sort of a bit of thinking about , and again tie it back to the everyday things that you know quite a lot about , electrical appliances , things like that . |
| 15 | Yes , erm , going back to the original thing that brought this up , that we should descry people from using Nestlé 's products , erm , in fact implications will be quite wide , because they now own Rowntrees , and they own Cross and Blackwells , and they own all sorts of other companies . |
| 16 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 17 | Well , can we get back to the basic thing about classlessness . |
| 18 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 19 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 20 | Also , I learned to appreciate that as a critic you say what you have to say and go on to the next thing in LA you never go on to the next thing . ’ |
| 21 | Also , I learned to appreciate that as a critic you say what you have to say and go on to the next thing in LA you never go on to the next thing . ’ |
| 22 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 23 | If things go badly , I move on to the next thing and do n't beat myself up |
| 24 | ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing . |
| 25 | We eat , we enjoy it or not as the case may be , and move on to the next thing . |
| 26 | If we 're having a training session and they feel something 's not going right , I want them to say so , to get it sorted out and get on to the next thing . |
| 27 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 28 | Shall we go on to the next thing ? |
| 29 | Very briefly to move on to the further thing now , What about myself as your prospective candidate ? |