Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 2 | If he ever stopped concentrating the whole thing could collapse in chaos . |
| 3 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 4 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 5 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 6 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 7 | She 'd said the right thing . |
| 8 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 9 | And immediately wondered if she 'd said the right thing , for Lubor wasted no time in asking , ‘ And what are you going to do today ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 11 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 12 | Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 13 | And he 'd done the right thing in getting that wallet back to Blackbeard , because Blackbeard was horribly evil and would have come after them if Joe had n't been sensible . |
| 14 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 15 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 16 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 17 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 18 | He 'd done the right thing . |
| 19 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 20 | By the final whistle he 'd done the sensible thing and switched to Gazza . |
| 21 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 22 | Women 's sub also happened to say the same thing . |
| 23 | BOB MARLEY 'S eldest daughter , Cedella , never got to do the one thing she always desperately wanted — join her late father on tour . |
| 24 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 25 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 26 | You managed to work the old thing . |
| 27 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 28 | I did do the right thing , did n't I ? ’ |
| 29 | Thank you very much to those who volunteered , or who were volunteered to help , especially to who worked as hard as I did to get the whole thing set up . |
| 30 | I wondered if Harvey had arranged the whole thing , betrayed me to Stok . |