Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 2 | He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy . |
| 3 | She did n't know the first thing about him , after all . |
| 4 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 5 | What was she doing , anyway , going out with a man she did n't know the first thing about ? |
| 6 | ‘ He did n't know the first thing about you , did he ? ’ |
| 7 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 8 | I did n't know the next thing . |
| 9 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |