Example sentences of "to [pers pn] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me the only thing to do . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah what I was going to say to you the only thing is will you put a plug up . |
| 3 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 4 | The party 's in Milton Keynes and to us the only thing worth mentioning for Milton Keynes is the concrete cows . |
| 5 | People who attended were , by and large , enthusiastic about the show but to us the whole thing was a nightmare , says O'Dalaigh . |