Example sentences of "thing they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the advocates of student power do want — and it is not always clear — one thing they plainly do not want is access to their professors ' wives ( 1971 : 111 ) . |
| 2 | What was the next thing they also want ? |
| 3 | The problem is , the term Lamarckism has changed its meaning in the course of this century , and now Lamarckism , if you say Lamarckism to most educated people , the first thing they normally think of , is not evolution by will , or , or progressivism , but inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 4 | Well Birmingham certainly will cos it 's the sort of thing they like doing . |
| 5 | Nah , you know , in the words of Abraham Lincoln , people who like that sort of thing will find it 's the sort of thing they like . |
| 6 | Maybe it 's the only thing they ever dreamt about . ’ |
| 7 | I have sent many letters reporting a shortage of supplies and the only thing they ever send are contraceptives ’ Doctor , Dominican Republic |
| 8 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 9 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 10 | The only thing they really lacked was that extra bit of meanness that you need to impose yourself on a game . ’ |
| 11 | He suggested that one reason his parents had talked so much about it was that ‘ they really were like oil and water , and the only thing they really agreed about was the ballet . |
| 12 | This is the sort of thing they really go to town on : an armed man , probably wounded , probably hiding out nearby . |