Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | microwave a new vacuum cleaner or whatever , I mean all the things they make , music centre that is a luxury really . |
| 2 | I listed all the things I could remember : camera , five films , pens , pencils , compass , maps , books , address book etc . |
| 3 | I actually took all those letters home and I went and I listed all the things that were listed er mentioned in all the letters and also that I tried to consider giving you know my impression of the meeting and tried putting exactly what what they 're saying . |
| 4 | Paul ( Myers ) sat me down and asked me what I liked to play , and I mentioned all the things I do , including these transcriptions . |
| 5 | I put all the things ready |
| 6 | I put all the things ready , but use the tea in the old , empty the old lot out before you fill it up , I put the packet there ready to open . |
| 7 | I unpacked all the things he 'd bought . |
| 8 | Have I got all the things I need to do this ? |
| 9 | This time I remembered all the things I had forgotten to say in the railway carriage . |
| 10 | Walking silently and in stealth over the harsh grass I remembered all the things an English gentlewoman should n't do , and the thing my mother had done . |
| 11 | I felt faint as I remembered all the things that mouth had done , and I sat down quickly , touching my burning face . |
| 12 | ‘ I think all the things that I initially tried to recruit carers were n't successful — I went to talk to vicars and community centres and the job centre , and wherever — none of these provided me with … well one vicar provided me with somebody . |
| 13 | Yeah , but I think all the things they said about him were true , I hate the man I do . |
| 14 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 15 | ‘ I miss all the things he did — like policies and banks and keeping the children in order . |