Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] was [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 2 | Imagine mother 's distress when she discovered there was no such thing ! |
| 3 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 4 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I felt it was a Christian thing to do . |
| 6 | At the time , I felt it was no bad thing , for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes , and especially those of Polynesia . |
| 7 | We are sorry Q.T. day had to be cancelled but because the weather conditions were so bad we felt it was the right thing to do . |
| 8 | I knew it was a two-way thing . |
| 9 | whereas Caesar did n't take the crown because he was ambitious , he knew it was the right thing to do . |
| 10 | Thérèse respectfully sent the nuns a faire-part , edged in black ; she knew it was the correct thing to do . |
| 11 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 12 | So many times she had told herself that , and each time she knew it was an impossible thing to do . |
| 13 | Perhaps the Indians thought it was a religious thing , like celebrating the 500th anniversary of a cathedral or whatever . |
| 14 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 15 | you meant that they thought it was a good thing to do . |
| 16 | I told him I thought it was a stupid thing for him to do . |
| 17 | Ha about half of you thought that was a good thing and about half of you thought it was a bad thing . |
| 18 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 19 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
| 20 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 21 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 22 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 23 | But , thought he was a nasty thing |
| 24 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 25 | DISGRACED David Mellor learned there was no such thing as a freebie as he was finally prised from his Cabinet seat last night . |
| 26 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 27 | He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’ |