Example sentences of "and [adv] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm when said , said it all and then should say that but there 's nothing more I can say and so the overall thing was great . |
| 2 | But it does figure that if you were to start out in the home recording business with the comparatively modest gear featured in volume one , then you would probably follow an upgrade path very similar to the one being demonstrated here , and so the whole thing retains a nice , logical pattern . |
| 3 | and so the whole thing perpetuates itself . |
| 4 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 5 | After the success of Cemetery Road the group hired the City Hall for another disco and soon the whole thing became a regular event which still occurs today . |
| 6 | It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up . |
| 7 | And today the whole thing was beginning to turn into a waking nightmare . |
| 8 | I spent half an hour painting layer upon layer over the hole and went to bed , and in the morning took two hours picking the varnish off because I 'm quite hairy , and then the damn thing moved again . |
| 9 | And then the other thing is what happens with a carbonate and an acid ? |
| 10 | And then the other thing that you 've maybe got to do is I 've spoken to er your office this morning because our card actually has expired , it expired a year ago this is how we 're going to pay |
| 11 | And then the other thing is I sometimes call preachments , such as the moral order essentially . |
| 12 | And then the stupid thing , the doctor said to me , ‘ Does she look like anybody in your family ? ’ |
| 13 | For 90 torpid minutes , one did n't know anything — or care about anything — and then the whole thing was unravelled in the most perfunctory fashion . |
| 14 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 15 | Its arms flicked snow loose in a final fastidious gesture of contempt , and then the whole thing began to tilt . |
| 16 | The north is at the bottom , and I think it helps if you stop thinking about it as a map and you think about it as a birds-eye view , a helicopter view , erm and then the whole thing begins to make sense . |
| 17 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 18 | And yet the shaming thing was , she wanted him to hold her , kiss her as he had before . |
| 19 | You lay the Axminster carpet on top of the cable , trampling all over it , over a number of years and again the old thing happens , it wears down the outer protective cabling , it breaks down the insulation and then you get a fire situation burning away , smouldering away underneath your carpet because while ever your er electrical appliance is switched on heat is being generated . |
| 20 | and they said if we , in turn , as it stands we could never give you exemption and therefore the only thing is to render it completely enoxious and then we can give you negative clearance because it will have no impact upon competition |