Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am half hidden in my bower , I am the last thing she sees , so I have time to examine her . |
| 2 | I 'm the best thing in your life |
| 3 | ( I 'm the best thing in your life ) |
| 4 | about I 'm the best thing in your life But |
| 5 | I 'm the real thing ’ . |
| 6 | I 'm the biggest thing that ever happened in sports . |
| 7 | Now , I did n't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread . |
| 8 | I do n't know erm possibly it is something to do with policy , actually that was n't what I was the main thing I was ringing about . |
| 9 | I was the last thing which I had anticipated , and the last thing which I sought . |
| 10 | On that particular Christmas Day , theirs was the nearest thing to an idyll to be found in the southern hemisphere . |
| 11 | Blessings from you are the last thing this pious little tsatskeleh needs . ’ |
| 12 | and sharpened up with typical 20th-century cynicism by the American lyricist Stephen Sondheim : I 've got those " God why do n't you love me , oh you do I 'll see you later " blues , That " long as you ignore me , you 're the only thing that matters " feeling , That " if I 'm good enough for you , you 're not good enough " And " thank you for the present but what 's wrong with it ? " stuff . |
| 13 | God knows you 're the only thing in my life to have any meaning since Johnnie died . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I think you 're the best thing in the entire show , ’ and she thought , If only you knew . |
| 15 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ I think you 're the meanest thing on this earth , Carrie Willow . |
| 17 | She 's the real thing . ’ |
| 18 | But when I go out she 's the only thing I talk about , she 's more important . |
| 19 | Her husband later told a news conference : ‘ She was the best thing that any man could wish for . ’ |
| 20 | Bob 's wife Barbara had died of cancer when Kim was two and she was the only thing left in Bob 's life . |
| 21 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ I can think of a couple of occasions when patronising you was the last thing on my mind . ’ |
| 23 | Jeffrey Dujon , in an interview for a magazine , summed it up : ‘ We 're the only example of Caribbean unity that exists , when the team performs we 're the only thing the entire Caribbean focuses on . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're the only thing to have happened from this part of town for ages , he says . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're the only thing to have happened from this part of town for ages , he says . |
| 26 | ‘ Grimma , we 're the highest thing there is ! |
| 27 | ‘ It 's Captain America 's big birthday in 1992 , 50 years or something , so we were the last thing Marvel wanted around . |
| 28 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
| 29 | They are the real thing and have all the hallmarks that have made PRS one of the world 's top-rated manufacturers . |
| 30 | Major the Couldn't-Care-Less , Major the Can't-Do-A-Thing-About-It and Major the Can't-Believe-A-Word-He-Says … they are the real thing . |