Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he felt only a strong desire to bring the whole thing to a finish … to do what he had come to do , risking life and limb in the process . |
| 2 | He sang the songs that related quite indirectly to the next mime that took place and there was a slight story linking the whole thing — very slight harlequinade story — but it hardly mattered at all . |
| 3 | good mind to take the bloody thing back . |
| 4 | There is a twelve percent reduction in maintenance , partly because we sold some holdings , partly a cut in the service , it is a , it is a , it 's a , it 's a legal requirement to maintain the whole thing , under the terms of the agreement , and I 'm also , because of the change in our , dropping our , a land agent , now that 's a reduction of thirty three percent in the management of the estates , so I really am doing my best and resources quite rightly have held my noose in order to ensure that I do . |
| 5 | Part one featuring the first four days of the route is on page 18 and we 'll be publishing parts two and three in our August and September issues , so September might be a good time to do the whole thing — if you can wait that long . |
| 6 | We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing . |
| 7 | They are made of lead and painted gold to resemble the real thing but the crude copies rapidly deteriorate . |
| 8 | As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing , it is reasonable to ask why we need both . |
| 9 | But both the ancient emperor and the modern mystic observe the same thing — the obedience of faith and the stamp of personal conviction which are hallmarks of Christian discipleship . |
| 10 | ‘ I promise you , ’ she says , ‘ there is n't a woman who does n't come out of a bad divorce thinking the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |