Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we usually change them into the same thing do n't we if we 're going to add them . |
| 2 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 3 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 4 | Now she wears nothing but the same thing , and always . |
| 5 | Well , I can tell you something ; I 'm on my own in this house from now on and I shall see to her bathing , and should he attempt to stop me , I 've told him what I 'll do ; I 'll brain him with the first thing I get my hands on . |
| 6 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 7 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 8 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 9 | If I take away the minus twenty well I 'm taking it from the same thing are n't I ? |
| 10 | You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’ |
| 11 | Now er reminded me of the next thing really I ought to have got on to . |
| 12 | That remi you 've C Cynthia saying that reminds me of the other thing that came out in feedback . |
| 13 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 14 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |
| 15 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 16 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 17 | ‘ Which brings me to the final thing we need to discuss . |
| 18 | So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle . |
| 19 | So did my father , he was n't to bother himself with the day-to-day things like washing sheets or buying food , that was her job , she made it plain . |