Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 2 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 4 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 5 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 6 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 7 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 8 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 9 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |