Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] thing you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sheila Kitzinger , the birth expert , wrote : ‘ The most undermining thing you can do to a woman in labour is to encourage her to feel sorry for herself . ’ |
| 2 | It 's the most profitable thing you can do . |
| 3 | And that , I am afraid , is just about the most interesting thing you can say about it . |
| 4 | Also , a wimpy , terror-free version of ‘ All Along The Watchtower ’ is the most superfluous thing you 'll come across . |
| 5 | So erm you can actually get round that by erm either reducing the estate , which is the simplest way of doing it , so one thing you can do is spend your money , which is n't a problem is it ? |
| 6 | As for the muggers who injure first and rob later , there is only one thing you can do : keep your eyes open , be aware of people around you , know what they are doing and look for likely ambush spots . |
| 7 | Well there 's only one thing you can do any way . |
| 8 | But I knew she was giving a series of lectures somewhere , and they were n't being reported , and there 's only one thing you 'd ask Dot to lecture on , so … ’ |
| 9 | If there 's just one thing you can tell me , one clue to how they think — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ As I know myself to be entirely English … ’ she told Parliament in March 1702 , three days after her accession , ‘ there is not one thing you can expect or desire of me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness or prosperity of England . ’ |
| 11 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 12 | This will have a significant impact on your fuel bills and help to reduce environmental pollution , but the most important thing you can do is to insulate your home properly . |
| 13 | OK , it sounds decidedly dumb , but one glaringly obvious thing you should check is whether your machine 's ‘ turbo ’ button has been pressed . |
| 14 | To be a hero on the field and to aspire to the red jersey of Wales was far and away the most dashing thing you could do . |
| 15 | Pain was the most expensive thing you could buy . |
| 16 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 17 | Which is one of the reasons , by the way , why another thing you will get murdered for in the er workshops is taking two hammers and hitting the heads against each other , because they 're hardened and y they may well shatter quite explosively if you do that . |
| 18 | LET'S KNIFE ( Creation ) is the most bizarre thing you 'll hear all year : Nirvana meet the Shangri-Las for a dozen high energy throwaway thrash tunes with titles such as Flying Jelly Attack , Cycling Is Fun , I Am A Cat and Bear Up Bison . |
| 19 | Perhaps the very first thing you will discover in acquiring a knowledge of actual police work , though it is in fact obvious , is that the sort of murders the police deal with are very different from the sort of murders that the detectives of detective stories dealt with . |