Example sentences of "thing [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it . |
| 2 | It was a great thing to get HE into a village to see conditions and what needs to be done , and I was able to press home some of my own ideas about village life and health . |
| 3 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to phone Dana , but she 's left her flat , ’ Claudia said , too weary of the whole thing to say anything except the truth . |
| 5 | The first thing to strike me about the EX was that Ibanez have chosen to reduce the size of their name on the headstock from its usual HI THERE ! status to a very modestly-sized logo that would almost certainly not get served in my local . |
| 6 | Further up the Valley is Trevillet Mill which serves clotted cream teas — just the thing to prepare you for the two to three mile trek to Tintagel . |
| 7 | ‘ What a thing to tell me at the start of a visit here ! ’ |
| 8 | I wished I had some small thing to show her as a reference : perhaps not a book , an article in a learned journal . |