Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent him to the north of Scotland on the nearest thing you can get to a wild goose chase — to try to see our country 's most elusive bird , the capercaillie . ’ |
| 2 | There 's no point in dwelling on the sad things that happened . |
| 3 | These are not at all original or exotic but are based on the ordinary things that most people tend to eat . |
| 4 | Swimmings of light on the smallest things . |
| 5 | The Benefit was an unqualified success , which was the main thing , but asking for the support of hundreds of strangers inevitably meant that the focus of their concern would be on John as well as on the terrible thing that was happening to him . |
| 6 | The longer this situation goes on the worse things are going to get . |
| 7 | ‘ On the early things on Sun it 's him , and then later on , on RCA , occasionally he would play or , like you mentioned before , he would turn the guitar over and just keep time on the back of it . ’ |
| 8 | California tends to be expensive , offering little saving on the real thing . |
| 9 | Planning a path on paper before you build gives an idea of the shapes and patterns you can create with the materials available to you — and it 's easier to correct mistakes on paper than on the real thing ! |
| 10 | The sharp , salty or insipid taste of shop-bought taramasalata is not a patch on the real thing . |
| 11 | Lee Benfield says he 's never skied on snow before but he 's enjoying this and is looking forward to having a go on the real thing |
| 12 | on the damn thing again . |
| 13 | As he turned the torch towards the door to the house , he gasped with horror , then screwed up his eyes for a moment , thinking of his kids , before letting his gaze rest again on the ghastly thing that dangled before him . |
| 14 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 15 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 16 | But it 's important we keep other An eye on the other things , keep other things ticking over and things like the hormone cream and the lithium will be a help in that . |
| 17 | On page six of our agenda there are congress organization motions which clearly need to be discussed some time during this congress because they concern rule amendments , and if they do fall off the agenda because debate is long on the other things , I really do believe they should take priority because we wo n't be raising them for another three years . |
| 18 | No , play on the other thing — the thing they were n't quite mentioning . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll get her started on the other thing . ’ |
| 20 | A union of Baptists or of Methodists could be based on shared theological foundations ; a union of Nonconformists could only be based on the one thing they shared , their nonconforming status as English Protestant Christians outside the established church of the land . |
| 21 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 22 | After all , I do n't see why Jennifer should miss out on the one thing she 's actually looking forward to just because of him . ’ |
| 23 | I am spending about all my time on the bloody thing — ’ |
| 24 | Bloody hurt it bruises , you sit on it and it does n't , I thought I might , I suppose after a while you 'll get blisters but it 's bruised , when you sit on the bloody thing . |
| 25 | , what 's on the bloody thing there ? |
| 26 | used to bang my head on the bloody thing ! |
| 27 | had his hands on the bloody thing he , I just got his a , I just jump up . |
| 28 | Aye , it seems I 'd have been better letting it run on the blooming thing . |
| 29 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 30 | He charmed , teased , involved then abandoned , his mind already on the next thing . |