Example sentences of "thing [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next thing I new my dad was asking me had I got everything ready for work , half eleven at night . |
| 2 | ‘ The thing you all seem so concerned about . ’ |
| 3 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 4 | And erm again and again you find that it is , that the thing you half suspected is mentioned by a character later , and when I find that I 'm strongly inclined to suppose that Shakespeare has put it there . |
| 5 | Well , I think it 's not erm a superstructure that 's been put there , because , I mean for example when you get a particular idea , there are often other questions you can ask to check whether it 's really present , to see whether the thing is alluded to at the appropriate point later in the plot and that sort of thing , and erm again and again you find that it is , that the thing you half suspected is mentioned by a character later . |
| 6 | The one thing we all dread is high winds . |
| 7 | One thing we all dreaded was Daddy getting a cold . |
| 8 | ‘ The one thing we all ask for is love . |
| 9 | The one thing we all fear is the loss of love . |
| 10 | Possibly it 's the very thing we all draw on , unconsciously , when we judge a character . |
| 11 | ‘ The thing we all ask about Jenny |
| 12 | The thing we all share is an overwhelming love of the show . |
| 13 | ‘ They are one thing we all have , ’ she replied , opening her eyes . |
| 14 | This is the sort of thing we all get to talking about when the beer 's flowing , or to pass the time when we 're 4–0 down at home to Norwich . |
| 15 | I want a male point of view to this silly love thing we all get netted into at some time in our lives . ’ |
| 16 | The last thing they all want is a Saddam bloody but unbowed ( President Bush , for the first time , last week urged the Iraqis to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam to ‘ step aside ’ ) . |
| 17 | WHEN London friends come and spend the day with me in Hastings , the first thing they all want to do is sample the fish and chips . |
| 18 | Another thing they all had were mussels , everywhere you looked on a breaker there were clusters of mussels . |
| 19 | One thing they all agreed on , however , was that Norway was an attractive posting because of its quality of life and the technical challenges it offered . |
| 20 | I do n't thing they one thing they do n't give in this book is a complete score |
| 21 | When they arrived in Milan , the two got off the train and , by coincidence , the first thing they both saw was a blown-up photograph of Penelope Tree . |
| 22 | As the fish have been living together quite happily until now , I do not thing it necessary to move any fish . |