Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll , I 'll be going to the village hall but I might have to go back to the Cross Keys , that 's why I put Roger , perhaps I put the wrong thing on you see ? |
| 2 | So I said the only thing he would believe . |
| 3 | so I says the only thing that 'll be is to er toast cheese on toast |
| 4 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |
| 5 | So I did the logical thing — for a gambler , that is . |
| 6 | The Transit being left-hand drive , I was nearest to her so I did the gentlemanly thing . |
| 7 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 8 | So we do a little thing like this . |
| 9 | I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do . |
| 10 | One , as it were , to pick out addresses , one to pick out socio-economic groups , one to pick out motor cars , one to pick out number of bedrooms , one to pick out whatever , and trivially or , or superficially everyone says the same thing , a database , it 's on the database , now |
| 11 | And if not I think the next thing actually is to move the decoder or change the decoder |
| 12 | There 's nothing really more I mean the whole thing is a budget guesstimate . |
| 13 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
| 14 | And now I have a terrible thing to tell you . |
| 15 | Well everyone gets the same thing . |
| 16 | Well I expect the whole thing needs washing does n't it ? |
| 17 | Right , well I think the best thing to do is to leave it until I see the advert again |
| 18 | The other thing , which I think is a , another great misconception is er our present Prime Ministers ' policy of having a classless society , well I think the first thing is you could do is actually abolish the House of Lords and that will certainly be a start on having a classless society in this country . |
| 19 | Well I think the first thing is , we have to bring out into the open the way in which the law is being misused . |
| 20 | ‘ So about a year ago I knocked the whole thing on the head . |
| 21 | Yeah , I have worked all my life in various jobs and I 've never yet met a man who hated me nor have I hated any man , and I think there must be many women here who think the same thing . |
| 22 | Why do n't you switch the darn thing off and listen to me ! ’ |
| 23 | Do n't you know the first thing about seduction ? ’ |
| 24 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 25 | And I said to myself : ‘ Why ca n't we do the same thing in Lebanon ? ’ |
| 26 | And I said to myself : ‘ Why ca n't we do the same thing in Lebanon ? ’ |
| 27 | why did n't he get the bloody thing up there then that 's |
| 28 | Maybe I wrote the whole thing in a dream . |
| 29 | ‘ You have been very clever — in fact , too clever ’ and the goodie saying , ‘ Kill me , but let the girl go ’ must be taken as read , but Casaubon does not fail to intone after the not tremendously exciting climax , ‘ Maybe I imagined the whole thing . ’ |
| 30 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |