Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year in October we say it is the finest thing in the garden . |
| 2 | A public inquiry is considering plans for a third supermarket — opponents say it 's the last thing the town needs . |
| 3 | Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . " |
| 4 | As you know it 's the only thing that brings Gesner to heel . |
| 5 | you know it 's the worse thing |
| 6 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 7 | You know it 's the one thing I really ca n't stand , Antoinette shouted : disobedience . |
| 8 | Because you know it 's the same thing . |
| 9 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 10 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 11 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 12 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 13 | As far as we believe it is the best thing for the school . ’ |
| 14 | " I find it is the only thing which will keep the cafard at bay when I 'm alone . |
| 15 | Talking of the growing demands for extra beat officers , he said : ‘ Everywhere I go it is the main thing that is brought to my attention . |
| 16 | Talking of the growing demands for extra beat officers , he said : ‘ Everywhere I go it is the main thing that is brought to my attention . |
| 17 | It 's er I mean it 's the only thing to do is n't it ? |
| 18 | I know , I mean , I mean it 's the same thing is n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I think you 're the best thing in the entire show , ’ and she thought , If only you knew . |
| 20 | ‘ I think you 're the meanest thing on this earth , Carrie Willow . |
| 21 | I 've seen the partners ; they agree it 's the right thing to do . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We all think it 's the best thing for you , to see something of life beyond the dale . ’ |
| 23 | They have a filing system , and the procedure for it which is about two pages is highly efficient , and the engineers think it 's the best thing since sliced bread . |
| 24 | Erm , I think it 's the right thing , is n't it ? |
| 25 | Well I think it 's the macho thing . |
| 26 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |
| 27 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |