Example sentences of "[adv] the thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may first come across this problem when a new baby arrives and suddenly the things she thought of as hers — like her cot — are taken away and given to the ‘ interloper ’ . |
| 2 | Put another way , perhaps the things I do with my time are really what I want to do . |
| 3 | ‘ Obviously the thing I have is the looks , which will help , but hopefully people will like the music too ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Obviously the thing I have is the looks , which will help , but hopefully people will like the music too . ’ |
| 5 | This figure contains all the separate information-processing components which seem to be needed to explain how we do all the things we can do with verbal stimuli , plus arrows indicating pathways of communication between these components . |
| 6 | How much , we wondered , would it cost to live like royalty , or the very rich , to pay someone to come in and do all the things us ordinary folk have to do for ourselves . |
| 7 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
| 8 | Slater sighed wistfully , " Do all the things I would n't dream of doing , but do n't forget what your Uncle Richard told you . " |
| 9 | Straightforward electronic testing of the assembly , that is , seeing if it does all the things it should , is slow , costly and may still fail to reveal some imperfections . |
| 10 | ‘ He could have gone back later and done all the things he claimed to have done … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , perhaps I am all the things you say , ’ Azmaveth replied , ‘ but you wo n't denounce me . |
| 12 | ‘ You go , ’ she said to Mrs Chamberlin , ‘ You go and do all the things you have to do . |
| 13 | So the thing you 're saying you 're saying that people |
| 14 | As time went on , to avoid a whipping , I learned to tell her only the things I thought she wanted to hear . |
| 15 | Be a devil and stop being so staid and doing only the things you 've planned to do . " |
| 16 | But I am at a loss to resolve whether to take away the things he has given me or no . |
| 17 | Yeah , throw , throw away the things you do n't want . |
| 18 | When they reported back to the branch about the National Conference of Young Conservatives , they were questioned about just the things they had failed to notice . |
| 19 | . That 's just the things we do , with the coronary arteries , we do coronary artery by- passes , I can , I can sew like any woman , I can darn your socks , we stick the veins on and we re-establish the the heart going a bit faster . |
| 20 | It 's just the things you poke your hairs up on a sharp stick |
| 21 | My child , the parent says in effect , is , or should be , achieving — or aggressive or sophisticated or " nice " — just the things I would want to be . |
| 22 | For those of you shying away from hopping around in the water and tired of pedalling away on a bike , a new stepping machine from Powersport International could be just the thing you 're after . |
| 23 | The odd thing is that the earliest models — unstreamlined and primitive ( thermostats were n't available until the 20s ) — seem just the thing you 'd see in today 's trendy kitchen . |
| 24 | Well that 's just the thing you do with it |
| 25 | Just the thing she needs . |
| 26 | Well the things they find , you know |
| 27 | Erm well the things I have to do are basically all the things listed on here still . |
| 28 | No well the thing you wan na do then is er , well yo you still got the form have n't you ? |
| 29 | Or , I I ca n't re , I wo n't repeat here the things they said , but you know spread it , or get it out or whatever ! |
| 30 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |