Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to say the thing that 's happening at the moment in my difficult life that I 'd hold onto like a drowning man with a log . |
| 2 | So it just means I got ta , do I have to take the thing in with me ? |
| 3 | It took me about a day each to write , seal , stamp and post this letter of mine , but I managed to get the thing off in the end . |
| 4 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 5 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
| 6 | But , to be fair to your potential customers , who could do this themselves , if they so desired , it seems to me that you have to treat the thing as a business from the word go , and try to bring something different to the market . |
| 7 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |
| 8 | So me and him struggled to throw the thing out of the window . |
| 9 | What he means by this is that he wants to see the thing in loan committee , damn the company 's leverage , and damn the balance-of-payments problems in the Philippines , period . |
| 10 | The journey in Howard 's car forcibly reminded him of that limitation , however , as he struggled to get the thing going over thirty miles per hour . |
| 11 | I think it looks like he wanted to get the thing over and done with before the Sabbath . |