Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect he timed the whole thing with a stopwatch , ’ said Greg . |
| 2 | He found the whole thing depressing , to the point that he says in Just Williams that he wrote ‘ The madness screamed up inside me . |
| 3 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 4 | Everywhere he found the same thing : elderly employees , attempting to run things as they thought the old baron would have wanted , out of touch with new ideas , fearful of taking any decision on their own , and consequently stalling , allowing problems to build up . |
| 5 | but if the god of heaven is concerned that 's fine , he 's not worrying because he created the whole thing , therefore it seemed to me pretty good reason to be concerned |
| 6 | Every lesson he repeated the same thing over and over again . |
| 7 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 8 | He saw the whole thing , told the local division . ’ |
| 9 | He knew the sensible thing to do was to remain silent and let her cry away . |
| 10 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
| 11 | He felt the whole thing was turning into a game in which each watched the other and paralleled their next move . |
| 12 | She paused too , just before she reached him , and he felt the whole thing could not have been stage-managed better . |
| 13 | At the end of that season he did the best thing he 'd ever done — he split with 13- times tiddler world champ and team manager Angel Nieto to create his own team with the help of glamorous wife Sylvie . |
| 14 | ‘ He is a brave , good man , the best in Rome , and he did the right thing for Rome by killing me . |
| 15 | It was n't adultery , he Did The Right Thing by a girl who had only months to live , Hitler 's hounds baying at their heels … |
| 16 | ‘ Well , at least he did the right thing in coming here , ’ Gina allowed . |
| 17 | He says that getting the children out quickly was a priority — fires in houses tend to spread very fast and he did the right thing . |
| 18 | A solicitor says that , technically , he DID act outside the law , but police say he did the right thing . |
| 19 | He says that under the circumstances he did the right thing . |
| 20 | As a small boy , he did the usual things that boys do . |
| 21 | He did the decent thing , and dropped them from his speech . |
| 22 | ‘ He did the decent thing ? ’ he derided . |
| 23 | He did the only thing he could , which was to chop it straight all the way round . |
| 24 | Frantic , he did the only thing he could . |
| 25 | Though , since he was still emotionally overwrought , he did the only thing possible . |
| 26 | Since , because of the right hon. Gentleman 's policies , the building societies stand to lose £1 billion because of mortgage repossessions and since local authorities are having to spend £500 million on bed-and-breakfast and temporary accommodation , does not the Prime Minister think that the rescue mortgage scheme that we have promoted would be the effective way to ensure not only the relief of misery for scores of thousands of families , but that at least he did the honourable thing by his victims ? |
| 27 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 28 | Told me that at just about the same age , he did the same thing to try and impress the then girl in in the office . |
| 29 | It was the first big opera he 'd conducted and he just did n't know how to do that , how to pace himself Incidentally he did the same thing when we recorded Peter Grimes and Reggie had to come in and help finish the recording . |
| 30 | I says , do n't tell me , I said , he did the same thing to me the other day , and it were only within a couple of days of each other . |