Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] the [adj] thing " in BNC.

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1 But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more .
2 So I suppose it 's what she wanted and she 's done the right thing .
3 We see our own dissatisfactions , our own pointless , unfocused longings in her and we are forced , because we are shown the terrible thing that happens to her , to question aspects of ourselves which might otherwise remain unexamined .
4 But the 27-year-old firmly believes he 's done the right thing .
5 He 's done the same thing with the torture scene .
6 He 's only thirty-four , and he 's done the same thing all over the Far East , taking over struggling and usually amateur or pirate radio stations like this one once was , and putting in people like me who pull commercial sponsorship because we draw listeners .
7 ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine .
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