Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 2 | And what would you say to a fourteen year old girl who might be watching this who might think of doing the same thing ? |
| 3 | ‘ We 're now looking at standardising the whole thing and that could well involve the defrocking of Reverend Green . ’ |
| 4 | I 've got ta redo the fucking thing . |
| 5 | What has she got ta do the Norwegian thing as well ? |
| 6 | So we got ta do the bloody thing again anyway ! |
| 7 | Mrs Clinton tells Vanity Fair , apparently without weighing the truth of the charges against Mr Bush : ‘ What Bill does n't understand is you 've got ta do the same thing in response as you do in negative advertising . ’ |
| 8 | No Act of Parliament ever repealed the privilege of sanctuary within the girth of Holyrood Abbey , but defaulting Abbey Lairds no longer occupied the area where Thomas de Quincey knew he was safe from his creditors and Walter Scott seriously thought of doing the same thing . |
| 9 | Jonathan asks me to say that Mary wants these items delivered to her at , anonymously , if necessary — I 'm sure those members of the trade still in possession of their underpants after the Christmas festivities can be relied upon to do the decent thing , and not abuse this rare privilege . |
| 10 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 11 | The second , that the only way to solve the problem on the canvas was to see its subject again in the flesh , which thought he welcomed , and went to dreams relieved of his frauds and pieties , smiling to think of having the rare thing 's face before him once again . |
| 12 | planning on pulling the whole thing down . |
| 13 | So if y if you 're manoeuvring round him and he suddenly changes his mind we 're compounding what he is actually doing , by getting assuming that he 's gon na do the right thing . |
| 14 | But if that that was only I was gon na say the other thing , when you 're talking about damage you know , at one time I would suggest that a good many years , you would n't see any damage out there . |
| 15 | And and , they 're the wrong , you know , if you 're gon na , if you 're gon na redecorate the whole thing you need to erm you need to , you know . |
| 16 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |