Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] [art] good thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , but as I say it 's a good thing that you 're doing yourselves . |
| 2 | The inner cities have a problem — we say it 's a good thing . |
| 3 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 4 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Danby says it 's the best thing ! ’ |
| 6 | The right wing says it was a good thing , Japan 's going into Manchuria to develop it ; the left wing calls it bad . |
| 7 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 8 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 9 | Are you saying it 's a good thing or a bad thing ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I suppose it 's a good thing when they can do that , ’ said Rupert , seeming not to notice the scorn in her voice . |
| 11 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 12 | Okay , now putting both bits aside , if we 're making sure , right okay , if we 're making sure that the product is being sold for the right reasons , i.e. the client is separately saving for deposit , for house moving fees , legal fees , all the other fees , and they could still afford to do this , then I believe it 's a good thing that you can suggest to your clients . |
| 13 | As far as we believe it is the best thing for the school . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 16 | you meant that they thought it was a good thing to do . |
| 17 | ‘ From an owner 's point of view , I do n't think it 's a good thing . |
| 18 | I mean do you think it 's a good thing that the flats are coming down , for the people who are actually living there ? |
| 19 | " Why should you think it 's a good thing to do ? |
| 20 | Do you think it 's a good thing ? |
| 21 | Now you may not agree with that , but nevertheless I will say , ‘ Do you think it 's a good thing ? ’ and you can say , ‘ Well , it 's a step in the right direction , I 'm encouraged by it . ’ |
| 22 | In itself in providing a greater degree of traffic relief Yes it I mean it is a good thing , it is a plus point . |
| 23 | I mean it 's a good thing the Americans have come , is n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I think you 're the best thing in the entire show , ’ and she thought , If only you knew . |
| 25 | To stroll into reality , the detail of it and the context , to unravel and to uncover it is a better thing than to sprint past , reading the billboards of science . ’ |
| 26 | Anyone think it 's a good thing ? ’ |
| 27 | And , the women were it was very jokey , it was very jolly and lots of titters and things I 'm not making comment on whether I think it 's a good thing |
| 28 | I think it , I think it 's a good thing that the problems have been acknowledged , |
| 29 | Yes I know er yes I er er I er er I , I think it 's a good thing that people , if they ask for information , you 've got to buy books to get them . |
| 30 | So I think it 's a good thing to offer it . |