Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or there 's another thing you can mum we 're trying to make that . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've read a few books in my time , and there 's one thing I 've learned … there 's a difference between education and being well read . ’ |
| 3 | Yes erm listening to the punters I mean I know loads of people come up here and there 's one thing which all of them tend to say and that this place is threatening . |
| 4 | " And there 's one thing in Duke 's favour — he 's not a pure-bred . |
| 5 | Oh and there 's one thing I did n't tell you : Moscow Centre 's on to the pattern . |
| 6 | And there 's one thing that Great-gran ca n't stand and that 's adverse publicity in any way . |
| 7 | And there 's one thing bothering them like everybody else , as they watched their pockets filling with every new CD pile . |
| 8 | ‘ But sir , that 's an armoured car , bristling with hi-tech weapons and there 's that thing on its roof . |
| 9 | and there 's this thing about I mean you know that there that we may be behaving , there may be erm ways that we behave that are n't actually functional th the , the society we 've got now might not actually be functional because of the technology we 've got |
| 10 | And all he 'd got ta do was just put like two different bins , sizes of turkeys , and they just pick them out and there 's this thing like a V shaped hook and they just sort of |
| 11 | Now it 's quite likely that next time I come we can spend quite a bit of time doing this same thing again yeah cos there 's a lot in it there 's angles using a protractor adding things up to check they come to the total that the angles come to three sixty and there 's this thing about fractions there 's cancelling fractions and then there 's working with quite big numbers three hundred and sixty what 's two fifteenths of three hundred and sixty mm that 's quite hard . |
| 12 | And there 's this thing scattered all over the place |
| 13 | Yes , we bought it , and there 's this thing that says Big Bess let's rip |
| 14 | ‘ And there 's another thing too , is n't there ? ’ |
| 15 | And there 's another thing . ’ |
| 16 | And there 's another thing . |
| 17 | And there 's another thing one tiny , tiny thing you forgot with all your plans . |
| 18 | A lot of people were making pretty serious music about how bad life was in Urban America , and there was this thing called punk rock that tonight 's retro-head DJ seems to have forgotten about . |
| 19 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 20 | Put against open window giving onto garden full of trees and it is one thing . |
| 21 | And it was one thing to lie , and another to blush . |
| 22 | ‘ And it was one thing , see , when she had her pride and her strength . |
| 23 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 24 | ‘ And what was this thing you found ? ’ asked Hugh cautiously . |
| 25 | ‘ We happened to be at the mortuary … not that it will make any difference , but there is one thing we thought you would find interesting . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm not what you 'd call the retiring type , and I rarely flinch from a fight when I 'm sure of my own righteousness ; but there is one thing I can not cope with , and that is unprovoked aggression . |
| 27 | God knows I 'm a failure , an insignificant speck of human nothingness trampled on indifferently by every casual passer-by , thought Dyson as he followed his wife out of the kitchen into the living-room , with his fists clenched in his trouser pockets and his face set in an unyielding frown , but there is one thing in this world that I 'm not going to stand for , and that 's being nagged by my wife . |
| 28 | But there is one thing I do n't understand . |
| 29 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 30 | But there is one thing , ’ said Jason . |