Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be the [adj] thing " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You wo n't know it 's the real thing unless you ( and she ) still feel the same in , oh , a year or so at least ; that 's the only way to prove you are n't living a dragonfly mistake . |
| 2 | Every year in October we say it is the finest thing in the garden . |
| 3 | A public inquiry is considering plans for a third supermarket — opponents say it 's the last thing the town needs . |
| 4 | ‘ He will know what is the right thing to do and so will the people who manage the building where the fight is being held . ’ |
| 5 | The new mother is often terrified of making a mistake but she does not really know what is the best thing to do . |
| 6 | And do you know what is the worst thing about all of this ? |
| 7 | And do you know what was the worst thing of all — do you ? ’ |
| 8 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 9 | However , believing something is the right thing to do in principle is very different from actually doing it oneself . |
| 10 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 11 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 12 | You could say a fourth it does n't matter it 's the same thing . |
| 13 | Mrs Danby says it 's the best thing ! ’ |
| 14 | Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . " |
| 15 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 16 | I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do . |
| 17 | My family and friends were very supportive throughout the divorce because they could see it was the right thing as we were n't making each other happy . |
| 18 | She could see it was the wrong thing to say and his black brows rose coldly . |
| 19 | As you know it 's the only thing that brings Gesner to heel . |
| 20 | you know it 's the worse thing |
| 21 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 22 | You know it 's the one thing I really ca n't stand , Antoinette shouted : disobedience . |
| 23 | Because you know it 's the same thing . |
| 24 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 25 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 26 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 27 | Then I 'm going to do what is the proper thing to do which is chop that to size |
| 28 | Jeffrey Dujon , in an interview for a magazine , summed it up : ‘ We 're the only example of Caribbean unity that exists , when the team performs we 're the only thing the entire Caribbean focuses on . |
| 29 | We 've had lots of letters saying it was the worst thing we 've ever done . |
| 30 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |