Example sentences of "be [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stok said , ‘ Baltic Military District GRU are handling the whole thing . |
| 2 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 3 | No you 're getting the other thing on a Thursday the quiz night , twenty seventh . |
| 4 | Now they 're closing the bloody things ! |
| 5 | And because you 're having the pre-appraisal thing |
| 6 | You may feel rather unsure of what you want in life mid-June , Capricorn , but by the end of the month , you will know that you 're doing the right thing ! |
| 7 | ‘ Hope we 're doing the right thing , ’ he whispered . |
| 8 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 9 | She said as she entered , ‘ My dears … ’ in a very English fashion , and she said all the usual phrases , and then to me , ‘ I hope you 're doing the right thing . ’ |
| 10 | I hope they 're doing the right thing . |
| 11 | So I believe we 're doing the right thing , I think it 's for the good of the country I think it 's for the good of the company and the shareholders . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope we 're doing the right thing , Doctor , ’ she said . |
| 13 | But , we 're doing the right thing for |
| 14 | The draught from that 's , yeah so you 're not sure whether you 're doing the right thing or not |
| 15 | You think you 're doing the right thing by eating olive oil pure oils but |
| 16 | and we can sing them and , feel that we 're doing the right thing and go our way but Lord we pray that the words we sing might be the words that we means , and the words that we say might be the things and the , the way we mean to conduct our lives . |
| 17 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 18 | But now they 're doing the whole thing all over again . |
| 19 | We 're blowing the whole thing out the window , |
| 20 | ‘ Stop it , ’ she murmured , ‘ you 're dramatising the whole thing . ’ |
| 21 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There is only limited opportunity , in effect , to break the patterned nature of their work if field men are to do the other things required of them . |
| 24 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 25 | Earlier , at the start of the FACE photo shoot , the actor had confided , ‘ I 'm not sure I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't know if I am doing the right thing , but I want to make her feel safe . |
| 27 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 28 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 29 | And in the eighties , unemployed girls who 've never experienced economic independence are doing the only thing they can — having babies , either getting married or not , but often staying with their mam and dad , and quite soon getting a council house . |
| 30 | They are doing the right things to find a book , but the book is n't where it should be . |