Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Corman has shot the whole thing in colour and in a cinema-verité style that makes it resemble a documentary . ’ |
| 2 | She has seen the whole thing . |
| 3 | Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams . |
| 4 | If the fish is whole , and the fishmonger has done the decent thing — removed the guts and gills , which would taint it during cooking — all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it ( ideally a fish kettle ) , cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil . |
| 5 | Stand-up comedian MARK LAMARR has done the Christian thing and joined The Word as its new presenter . |
| 6 | But , after a management reshuffle , it has done the sensible thing and cut the dividend . |
| 7 | It has to resemble the real thing as done in the fields . |
| 8 | Whilst ‘ Kubla Khan ’ may delight us it does not delight Coleridge , who has seem the real thing . |
| 9 | The cop has watched the whole thing . |
| 10 | Nissan has taken the whole thing one step further with its series of weird and cute limited production models . |
| 11 | A person who can make good use of a resources library has learnt the following things : |
| 12 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 13 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 14 | If you 'd said the right things at |
| 15 | She 'd said the right thing . |
| 16 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 17 | And immediately wondered if she 'd said the right thing , for Lubor wasted no time in asking , ‘ And what are you going to do today ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 19 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 20 | Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 21 | And he 'd done the right thing in getting that wallet back to Blackbeard , because Blackbeard was horribly evil and would have come after them if Joe had n't been sensible . |
| 22 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 23 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 24 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 25 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 26 | He 'd done the right thing . |
| 27 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 28 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 29 | By the final whistle he 'd done the sensible thing and switched to Gazza . |
| 30 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |