Example sentences of "[adj] thing [conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And then Grant gets that primeval male thing and he thinks he should be doing more . |
| 2 | Just to convince us that all these things that he tells us about are somehow present , to convince us of the heinousness of what he 's done . |
| 3 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 4 | ‘ The Minister is just finishing a phone call , then I must tell him one thing before he sees you , ’ he said , briskly , glancing at the miniature switchboard beside him which sat incongruously in the draughty , high-ceilinged , dingy room . |
| 5 | The last passage I 'm going to have time to read comes in the erm speech of Adam erm , not actually speech , the inward soliloquy to Adam , the first thing that he says he says his case is not yet fallen when he sees Eve . |
| 6 | ‘ It does n't mean a damn thing when he says we have low interest rates . |
| 7 | Jesus Christ was big himself , he came into the world to do big things and he calls us to do big things . |
| 8 | He thought your freelance Mrs Howard represented the same thing that he thinks he represents himself : the defence of this country . |