Example sentences of "do a [adv] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that would be dishonest , and Robbie had never done a deliberately dishonest thing in her life . |
| 2 | made me laugh cos we 'd gone up to house tonight , he said he was making a real effort to be good and to and he , when he got up to house today he goes I was doing a really gentlemanly thing and saying oh thank you for a really nice evening , I started laughing well what was I supposed to ? |
| 3 | On 16 December 1936 , the French-language Lebanese newspaper L'Orient did a most unusual thing ; it abandoned its normal , sober typographical layout and printed instead across the top of its front page a seven-column photograph of hundreds of young men in well-creased shirts and trousers standing in lines across a field in the rural Beirut suburb of Ein al-Rumaneh . |
| 4 | But Great-Aunt Jane did a very strange thing . |
| 5 | I have to confess , I 'm afraid — and now we have come to the point of this long and circumstantial detour , of a sort which I assure you will not recur in these reports — that under the pressure of the circumstances I did a very foolish thing . |
| 6 | So she did a very brave thing . |
| 7 | ‘ He did a very bad thing , ’ Sarah said slowly , ‘ but I feel sorry for him now . |
| 8 | The author draws the conversation to a close with the comment that Murray was still too young to realise that ‘ fighting under any circumstances is a dreadful business , and that the person who gives the cause for the fight does a very wicked thing , utterly hateful in the sight of God . |