Example sentences of "[art] [adj] thing you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUSHIEST COMMENT : ‘ The greatest thing you can do do when you love somebody is to make another human being . ’ |
| 2 | If you do n't know the words if you do n't know what the Spanish or lemonade or you ca n't spell the darn thing you 'll get a low mark right . |
| 3 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 4 | Elaine England , senior training analyst at Lloyds Bank says : ‘ The worst thing you can do is fall in love with the gadgets and technology . ’ |
| 5 | I think the worst thing you can do is to ask parents for measurements — as this can lead to problems . |
| 6 | Furthermore , liking the bulbs for dividing is bound to disturb the roots of the roses , which is just about the worst thing you can do to them . |
| 7 | The worst thing you can do is buy things you will rarely , if ever , need . |
| 8 | And the worst thing you can do is give your skin a short period of intensive exposure to sun — exactly what we go in for when we jet off on our summer holidays . |
| 9 | They will form all sorts of categories too and the worst thing you can do in sa in er negotiating advertising er Richard is to prejudge anybody |
| 10 | The worst thing you can do is set these things and then cock it up because secretaries is people that pride themselves on being administratively perfect |
| 11 | I have to say , myself , you know I feel one of the worst thing you can call a man in the English language is a term that 's used for a women 's genitalia . |
| 12 | They just think it 's wrong , it 's the worst thing you could do . |
| 13 | No that 's the worst thing you could do . |
| 14 | No that 's the worst thing you could do . |
| 15 | The pursuit of good living is not the innocent thing you would like it to be , my dear ; you were n't born in time to watch my compatriots during the war , the energies they put into it , the boys dying Pour La Patrie while the family at home fought about L'Héritage and assured the survival of La Bonne Cuisine . |
| 16 | The smallest thing you could do would be to help a poor injured man towards the comfort of an inn ! ’ |
| 17 | I sent him to the north of Scotland on the nearest thing you can get to a wild goose chase — to try to see our country 's most elusive bird , the capercaillie . ’ |
| 18 | At the moment , Rabbit 's British-made GPT phone is the only digital portable phone widely available in the UK , and the telepoint network it uses is the nearest thing you can get to digital mobile telephony . |
| 19 | It must be the nearest thing you could get to Lord Ismay … it was just the tip how to run it , how to manage it from the Government point of view . |
| 20 | Once you get beyond its up to the minute good looks the first thing you 'll notice is that is price tag looks a little out of date . |
| 21 | The first thing you 'll notice is how snugly this miniature camcorder fits your hand . |
| 22 | If you 're familiar with Ventura Publisher , the first thing you 'll notice when you load up is the absence of an icon-based toolbar . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 24 | The first thing you would notice about the landscape if you were to travel back in time was how wet it was . |
| 25 | The first thing you may find yourself doing in advance of this is blowing the dust from old textbooks in a fleeting fit of nostalgia . |
| 26 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 27 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 28 | But the first thing you must do , once you know the figure , take seventy- five per cent of it , if it 's up to forty-five thousand and obviously these are . |
| 29 | The first thing you must get out of your head is that you 're the predestined black sheep of the family , that you and they are necessarily opposed . ’ |
| 30 | The oak will certainly be removing many nutrients from the soil so the first thing you should do is dig the area over well and incorporate plenty of organic matter such as well-rotted manure , garden compost , leaf mould or peat . |