Example sentences of "[adj] [art] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that the thing that 's in the next workshop ? |
| 2 | But er then there was others sort of cheap joints you know , they just rushed things up and just a couple of just er When you see some of th You know that goodwill shop that that the thing when you when you see a lot of the things that 's supposed to be polished , you know , they 're just varnished over . |
| 3 | Is that the thing you get ? |
| 4 | Oh is this the thing we went round the door with ? |
| 5 | He must of been up quite a while cos this the thing 's fell down has n't it ? |
| 6 | Or we look at how strongly animals avoid things , and again that tells us something about how unpleasant the thing is to the animal . |
| 7 | ‘ One way or another the thing had to die . |
| 8 | So this a thing you wo n't like about it , is that if you 've got er , thirteen columns and ten rows , that means you have to create hundred and thirty range names , which you wo n't enjoy doing . |
| 9 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 10 | One reason given was ‘ to teach that there is no place void of Divine Presence , even so lowly a thing as a bush ’ ( Mishnah , Exodus Rabbah , II , 5 , quoted in Cohen , 1949 : 9 ) . |
| 11 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 12 | And er you know , the different er things they can tell you just how l old a thing th And then I think they were the sort of the fashion Er you know they were first in the fashion trade to introduce these sort of things you know . |
| 13 | the ordinary the thing I was just telling you dad |
| 14 | The idea that there is such a thing as the spirit of a time can be awkwardly challenged by asking , ‘ Whose time ? ’ |
| 15 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 16 | But there really is such a thing as overtime for long days . |
| 17 | And how better would a kidnapper do such a thing than to send a letter by his Majesty 's Mail . |
| 18 | All must be equally under suspicion , though we all know the master or mistress would never think of doing such a thing . ’ |
| 19 | And if the answer was yes , would such a thing happen ? |
| 20 | ‘ I still do n't understand how you could do such a thing , ’ Michael complained . |
| 21 | And with the young doctor who tries to help Raskolnikov , the voice of the underground man has become more accessibly funny : ‘ I admit there 's scarcely such a thing as a normal human being . |
| 22 | The plot , should there be such a thing , thickens as Fleeting has consistently put more cash on the table than his opponent . |
| 23 | With heroic individual exceptions , both the Protestant and Catholic churches supported Hitler and , in East Germany in particular , were determined that such a thing should never happen again . |
| 24 | Some may indeed dream of a united Germany : few believe it is politic to speak or even think of such a thing . |
| 25 | Yet in our bones we all know that there is such a thing as national character , even if only a fool or a racist would attempt to define its precise ingredients . |
| 26 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 27 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 28 | I do n't believe there is such a thing as being able to stop a business in its tracks and say that 's far enough . |
| 29 | Yet people acted as though there was such a thing and this illusion was essential both for the working of capitalism and for the acceptability of the exploitation on which capitalism was based . |
| 30 | ‘ How can you say such a thing ? |