Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 2 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 3 | Women 's sub also happened to say the same thing . |
| 4 | BOB MARLEY 'S eldest daughter , Cedella , never got to do the one thing she always desperately wanted — join her late father on tour . |
| 5 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You managed to work the old thing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The heat surge grill thing in the car had broken and you could n't just buy a n individual switch you er had to buy the whole thing and it was |
| 11 | Still , he had to do the honourable thing … . |
| 12 | He had to do the right thing . |
| 13 | Though the groom looked as if he longed to get the whole thing over and done with , he obeyed the dictates of tradition and refused . |
| 14 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 15 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 16 | She dropped back and crouched to retrieve the shattered thing , gathering dry petals in the dip of her dress . |
| 17 | I wanted to destroy the grey thing and I was screaming . |
| 18 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 19 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |