Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stok said , ‘ Baltic Military District GRU are handling the whole thing . |
| 2 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 3 | Well look , if if you 're wanting the next thing to do , I mean you 've done that for seventh year |
| 4 | He let her leave the room before going across to Aggie , who was standing now looking down into the fire , and he patted the back of her shoulder , saying , ‘ You 're doin' the best thing , Aggie , the only thing . |
| 5 | No you 're getting the other thing on a Thursday the quiz night , twenty seventh . |
| 6 | Now they 're closing the bloody things ! |
| 7 | And because you 're having the pre-appraisal thing |
| 8 | You may feel rather unsure of what you want in life mid-June , Capricorn , but by the end of the month , you will know that you 're doing the right thing ! |
| 9 | ‘ Hope we 're doing the right thing , ’ he whispered . |
| 10 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 11 | She said as she entered , ‘ My dears … ’ in a very English fashion , and she said all the usual phrases , and then to me , ‘ I hope you 're doing the right thing . ’ |
| 12 | I hope they 're doing the right thing . |
| 13 | So I believe we 're doing the right thing , I think it 's for the good of the country I think it 's for the good of the company and the shareholders . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope we 're doing the right thing , Doctor , ’ she said . |
| 15 | But , we 're doing the right thing for |
| 16 | The draught from that 's , yeah so you 're not sure whether you 're doing the right thing or not |
| 17 | You think you 're doing the right thing by eating olive oil pure oils but |
| 18 | and we can sing them and , feel that we 're doing the right thing and go our way but Lord we pray that the words we sing might be the words that we means , and the words that we say might be the things and the , the way we mean to conduct our lives . |
| 19 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 20 | But now they 're doing the whole thing all over again . |
| 21 | ‘ If you build more prisons you 're doing the same thing , ’ the Governor said . |
| 22 | We 're doing the same thing here , we 've got a , a low resistance letting a lot of current in , letting a lot of current go through . |
| 23 | And if we 're doing the same thing , they 're gon na s sooner of later they 're gon na click and they 're gon na say , Well you know , that 's too much of a good thing like you know . |
| 24 | Because whatever er product area you work in then you 're doing the same thing as everybody else is . |
| 25 | And it looks like we 're doing the same thing , over and over , but we 've got one damned thing the phoenix never had . |
| 26 | We 're blowing the whole thing out the window , |
| 27 | I think we 're saying the same thing . |
| 28 | The original meaning , as defined by Collins , has certainly taken a mean whipping before re-release into this streetwise prose but we 're talking the same thing here , are n't we ? |
| 29 | ‘ Stop it , ’ she murmured , ‘ you 're dramatising the whole thing . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |