Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wo n't know it 's the real thing unless you ( and she ) still feel the same in , oh , a year or so at least ; that 's the only way to prove you are n't living a dragonfly mistake . |
| 2 | Erm , but as I say it 's a good thing that you 're doing yourselves . |
| 3 | The inner cities have a problem — we say it 's a good thing . |
| 4 | Black guys say it 's a monetary thing , but I do n't think its strictly money . |
| 5 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 6 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 7 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 8 | The right wing says it was a good thing , Japan 's going into Manchuria to develop it ; the left wing calls it bad . |
| 9 | Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . " |
| 10 | I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She could see it was the wrong thing to say and his black brows rose coldly . |
| 13 | But i I must say I like it is a marvellous thing to be able to do that ! |
| 14 | ‘ I know it 's a terrible thing to say , but I wish sometimes Jimmie had died before he made Mammoth . |
| 15 | now , yeah I know it 's a daft thing , but what about erm |
| 16 | you 'd have to be study you know time and that there , ooh I know it 's a grand thing is education lessons , but |
| 17 | So , I know it 's a sensitive thing this elderly person 's home , but I would argue that underpinning it is a logic . |
| 18 | I know it 's a horrible thing to say |
| 19 | I 'm surprised she did n't get I know it 's a horrible thing to say but |
| 20 | ‘ I know it 's a dreadful thing to say , after all we 've been through . |
| 21 | Where she worked , her relationship with this man who was murdered , and so forth , and you know it 's a funny thing . |
| 22 | Oh I know it 's a funny thing ! |
| 23 | Now I know it 's a funny thing but this time because of demand it was forty eight , now alright out of that forty eight three was still , right one was in hospital so you can |
| 24 | As you know it 's the only thing that brings Gesner to heel . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 27 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 28 | Information is a raw material like any other and buying it is a sensible thing to do . |
| 29 | I told me mates it was a sure thing and they emptied their pockets and put every last halfpenny on you and that horse of your'n . |
| 30 | Jeffrey Dujon , in an interview for a magazine , summed it up : ‘ We 're the only example of Caribbean unity that exists , when the team performs we 're the only thing the entire Caribbean focuses on . |