Example sentences of "[adj] a thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 3 | ‘ … in such a thing I do not trust myself . |
| 4 | The promise was readily given and gratefully received : so small a thing it seemed to the giver and so great to the receiver . |
| 5 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 6 | According to this , we can best assess the intrinsic value of something if we ask how good or bad a thing it would be if it existed in complete isolation . |