Example sentences of "i [vb past] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 2 | I made the whole thing up from the start |
| 3 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 4 | ‘ I choked the dirty thing , ’ said Nour , ‘ and threw it in the street for the dogs . ’ |
| 5 | But I got the main thing off a , off a TV programme . |
| 6 | ‘ I got the whole thing up and running . |
| 7 | I got the whole thing under control . |
| 8 | Trainee chef Tom Wilkinson , 20 , said : ‘ The action sequences were entertaining and I rated the whole thing as pretty good . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You have been very clever — in fact , too clever ’ and the goodie saying , ‘ Kill me , but let the girl go ’ must be taken as read , but Casaubon does not fail to intone after the not tremendously exciting climax , ‘ Maybe I imagined the whole thing . ’ |
| 10 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 11 | I replied the same thing could be said about running a successful club , but Bob was off , back into the night . |
| 12 | ‘ So about a year ago I knocked the whole thing on the head . |
| 13 | And you seeing what you 're playing tonight , I thought I ca n't , but I heard the first thing der der der , but then it goes der der der |
| 14 | I decided the best thing to do was keep busy , so I tried to recall my antenatal classes — I could n't remember a thing . |
| 15 | In the end I decided the best thing was to put you to bed and let you sleep it off . ’ |
| 16 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 17 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 18 | I watched the whole thing . |
| 19 | ‘ You know , boy , ’ he mused as I hefted the heavy thing , ‘ these coins are excessively rare . |
| 20 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 21 | I saw the whole thing slowly take shape . |
| 22 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 23 | where I mucked the whole thing up trying to get the |
| 24 | I gathered the little thing into my arms and she pressed against me . |
| 25 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 26 | I thought the best thing to be , before this went any further , was brisk . |
| 27 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach . |
| 29 | I thought the last thing you wanted was to have to spend more time than necessary in my company … seeing as you dislike me so much ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I thought the whole thing was pretty unfair . |