Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] was the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do you know what was the worst thing of all — do you ? ’ |
| 2 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 3 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 4 | My family and friends were very supportive throughout the divorce because they could see it was the right thing as we were n't making each other happy . |
| 5 | She could see it was the wrong thing to say and his black brows rose coldly . |
| 6 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 7 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 8 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 9 | We 've had lots of letters saying it was the worst thing we 've ever done . |
| 10 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 11 | Maybe she 'd been too ready to believe it was the real thing ? |
| 12 | We are sorry Q.T. day had to be cancelled but because the weather conditions were so bad we felt it was the right thing to do . |
| 13 | By the time he was demobbed he was the nearest thing to a genius when handling the military gadgetry of radio signals and wireless telephony that the army produced . |
| 14 | whereas Caesar did n't take the crown because he was ambitious , he knew it was the right thing to do . |
| 15 | Thérèse respectfully sent the nuns a faire-part , edged in black ; she knew it was the correct thing to do . |
| 16 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 17 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 18 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
| 19 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 20 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 21 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't get me wrong , I think it 's a tragedy that Glen Canyon Dam was built ; but if I was a farmer in Arizona I 'd probably think it was the greatest thing in the world . ’ |
| 23 | He did it so cleverly that you would think it was the real thing — until he burst out laughing . |
| 24 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 25 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |
| 26 | She used to say it was the best thing in the house . |
| 27 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 28 | He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’ |
| 29 | She quickly pulled it in and shoved it through the slot , hoping it was the right thing . |
| 30 | During one meal I swat one off my arm and ask Tor if he knows what was the last thing that went through the mozzie 's mind . |