Example sentences of "[num ord] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started-first thing by refusing to dress myself . |
| 2 | The second thing to note is that each offence carries its own scale of penalties , and penalties for one offence are not added on to penalties imposed for a different offence . |
| 3 | The second thing is that there are an awful lot of them . |
| 4 | The second thing was that almost never did it matter since the whips ran the show . |
| 5 | The second thing was … |
| 6 | I ca n't remember the second thing . |
| 7 | And the second thing is just how enthusiastic everyone is , when celebrating Mass . |
| 8 | The second thing a fire does is to warm the house and make it inviting . |
| 9 | The second thing that I would like to know is what happens if I put larger tyres on my vehicle , it has the standard crossply 's at the moment . |
| 10 | The second thing to consider is that if you are eating the amount you say , then this may be too much . |
| 11 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 12 | The second thing was the content . |
| 13 | The second thing we can not escape is that man has dominion over the animals , whether we like it or not . |
| 14 | The second thing is largely due to the veterinary profession : the control of infectious disease by vaccination and by antibiotics . |
| 15 | The second thing is the not quite so obvious one of discovering if the present body is the first one of its kind to be set up in the locality , and were there any local organisations which once existed but no longing do so . |
| 16 | The second thing I noticed was the friendliness of the people , the spontaneity of their welcome and their kindness to all the athletes who gathered there . |
| 17 | And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony . |
| 18 | Back to Herod , and the second thing to learn from him about bullies . |
| 19 | ‘ And the second thing was the arrival of the missionaries . |
| 20 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 21 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 22 | The second thing I welcomed from him was the need to get away from outward Western forms in worship and adopt meaningful indigenous forms . |
| 23 | ‘ Second thing : they 're sneaky . |
| 24 | The second thing to note is that to say that someone who says ‘ I hope ’ — for example , ‘ I hope you 'll come ’ — is simply expressing his mental state is to ignore the role of such utterances in human intercourse . |
| 25 | The second thing that struck her was on a different plane , but was another restriction . |
| 26 | The second thing making life easier for the would-be proliferator is the break-up , and breakdown , of the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | The second thing productive I do n't think it 's productive for people to interrupt start shouting at me and chairing at me or shout shout at the platform cos I think all that 's gon na happen there is the meetings gon na disintegrate and nothing will be as right . |
| 28 | Full information right from the start also allows time for the second thing , which is imagination , meaning the development of creative solutions to the problems . |
| 29 | That is the second thing to notice ; the philosopher 's children are boys . |
| 30 | The second thing they tell you is rather more subtle . |