Example sentences of "[art] [adj] thing [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly hit the grey thing and it fell back against the tree . |
| 2 | The only thing that it did was to clarify the legality of its position . |
| 3 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 4 | I saw it as a disaster and it happened , but I did n't think it would be such a hello-goodbye thing as it turned out to be . ’ |
| 5 | Flavia went on following her train of thought , ‘ I can not see him doing even a disinterested thing if it went against a rule . ’ |
| 6 | A good thing while it lasted |
| 7 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 8 | It is sometimes suggested not only that postmodernism scarcely exists in Britain , but that it would not be a good thing if it did : like structuralism , it is seen as a form of literary rabies , to be confined to the Continent for as long as possible . |
| 9 | Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ? |
| 10 | A PWR was economic , displacing old plant ; it was a good thing because it used other fuel than coal , or , rather , it was in line with the |
| 11 | Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ? |
| 12 | The essential point was that the medieval Church was a ‘ sex-negative ’ institution — sex was a bad thing because it interfered with the search for spiritual perfection . |