Example sentences of "thing [coord] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So whether that 's an annual thing or not I do n't know . |
| 2 | We have all we want to know about that sort of thing and anyway it is not my job . |
| 3 | Walking is such a simple thing and yet we all take it very much for granted . |
| 4 | and all that sort of thing and how it affected people buying furniture because there was a very high luxury tax |
| 5 | So there 's classic sort of stories about organisation where the the er president of the organisation asks somebody to investigate something and that gets translated by the vice president into sort of rather more hostile sort of thing and basically it ends up with somebody at the bottom of the pile having their ass kicked or whatever because it 's been translated , or mis- translated down , okay ? |
| 6 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 7 | Angalo touched this panel thing and it just moved aside and then we were inside and there was an elevator thing and then we were in this great big room with a seat and Angalo sat down and all these lights came on and he started pressing buttons and moving things ! ’ |
| 8 | We just do the first thing and then we do the second thing . |
| 9 | The traffic had jammed up for one thing and then we were treated to the sight of the guy in the rabbit costume ( it must have been male , women do n't run like that ) tearing down the street carrying a sledgehammer , hotly pursued by two policemen trying to keep their helmets on . |
| 10 | Oh you wo n't need sixteen megabytes even if you decide to improve the let's unpack that thing and then we 'll see how much space we 're talking about how much of that 's padding and how of that is real thing , . |
| 11 | What 's it called the , they bought this pig medicine pig retained there trotters and every thing and then it goes any more of the erm dialysis put it , make a pig rock and roll . |
| 12 | He also lived at Pinner and erm then the work dried up and he first of all he did work was a postman at Christmas time , you know just as a thing and then he started you know then he became full time you know . |
| 13 | He said about a , a free gift as the first thing and then he said about made enquiries of others which I thought was almost er er a , a way there of saying well , you know , oth other people more or less recommend Friends Provident . |
| 14 | shows you a little tiny picture of the calculator and when you press one button it presses the button on the thing and then he showed me the clock |
| 15 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 16 | but I think you 're right , I think if you , you can get qualified that 's the thing and then you can begin to look thereafter . |
| 17 | And er it 's cast iron of course , with a steel screw and then er big brass balls on the end of this thing and then you would squeeze it down and then if you did it correctly , you took it out and the indelible ink , would have transferred the actually letter including the signature on the flimsy which was then filed in the |
| 18 | We there was n't room for a three piece suite sort of thing and then you 'd have a sideboard and a table , chairs to sit on like hard chairs , wooden chairs like kitchen chairs . |
| 19 | Yeah so erm yeah so if you get that sort of thing and then you can in some way either get people to discuss or get them to fill in a questionnaire about it or something of the sort I mean that 's er the format that y'know kind of er seems to work quite well for final year projects anyway er generally speaking with other stuff so er yeah that 's that 's do-able . |
| 20 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 21 | in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing . |
| 22 | But I think that sex can be a fleeting thing and sometimes I believe that if it is that alone as the basis of a relationship , then all the finer and better qualities are thrown out of the window . |
| 23 | And then I opened up on Saturday morning , first thing and there I was standing in the shop . |
| 24 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 25 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |