Example sentences of "was [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't going to let Miguel know how anxious she was to choose the right thing to wear — fashionable yet not forward , pretty but not overdressed . |
| 2 | Perhaps he was imagining the whole thing . |
| 3 | He was conducting the whole thing , with a minimum of gesture : a sort of schoolboy Adrian Boult . |
| 4 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 5 | Well Les was saying the only thing you 've got ta be careful of like when you pay money into a bank when you 're in business and you pay money into the bank and the bank then pay your standing orders er and everything 's done through a bank , then the tax office sort of tend to think well fair enough you know , he 's legit . |
| 6 | The , the that she was under , and Pearl did , Pearl was trusting her and , and knew , and so the Denise was saying the right thing , she was staying in the bedroom , never knew what was going on down there . |
| 7 | Now this woman , a complete stranger , was saying the same thing because she was with Nathan . |
| 8 | Now he was saying the same thing . |
| 9 | ‘ When I arrived at the river I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing because the water temperature was 4.1 degrees Centigrade and the air temperature was 1.8 degrees , ’ said Les . |
| 10 | When they left , however , and I made the decision to stay , I knew it might be hard for me but I knew also that I was doing the right thing . |
| 11 | If God would provide accommodation for my family while I was away , preferably with friends , and convince my parents that I was doing the right thing , then I would know that the trip was on . |
| 12 | He hesitated , wondering if he was doing the right thing by telling her . |
| 13 | That , says Prue , helped convince her partners she was doing the right thing . |
| 14 | Stone said nothing for a moment , staring at the CI5 man , perhaps still not sure of whether or not he was doing the right thing . |
| 15 | I wanted to be sure that I was doing the right thing and would n't regret it . |
| 16 | But they all knew he was doing the right thing in joining the Legion , for her sake as well as his . |
| 17 | Not at all sure that I was doing the right thing , I fumbled towards the nearest dish for a finger-load of food , and turned to Sadria . |
| 18 | I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing but I got up and started towards him as he finally got the clip to slide into the gun and snick home . |
| 19 | For a moment he wondered if he was doing the right thing . |
| 20 | And after phoning Julie , who had agreed to join her in Devon , she 'd also been heartened by her friend 's confirmation that she was doing the right thing . |
| 21 | Steve was doing the right thing ; he was going to marry the woman he loved even though she had a baby by another man , which was a true measure of the depth of his caring . |
| 22 | If only Miguel were here , to reassure her that she was doing the right thing . |
| 23 | Instead , hesitantly , terribly afraid she was doing the wrong thing , she plucked meanings from the firmament . |
| 24 | ‘ You said the wheelbarrow was doing the natural thing — but it was n't falling . ’ |
| 25 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 26 | Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing . |
| 27 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 28 | They should have had more definite targets , because it was a bit , everyone , at one point everyone was doing the same thing , , through the words which |
| 29 | My strongest instinct was to call the whole thing off without delay ; the end result would be the same and anyway I was n't feeling very strong . |
| 30 | By the time she 'd elbowed the door open with two steaming mugs of tea , I had was reading the first thing which had come to hand . |