Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] thing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She practises her craft by saying ‘ the first funny thing that comes into your head , and if that 's not funny you say the second ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 3 | He said , ’ Walker , I 've now known you for four years , and this is the first intelligent thing that you have done . ’ |
| 4 | that 's the last major thing that happens to him . |
| 5 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |