Example sentences of "[art] [adj] thing was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odd thing was his first thought was her husband , Ed , must be told — Ed whom she was on the verge of divorcing . |
| 2 | The strange thing was they did n't seem to mind that he was on the same terms with judges , cops and lawyers . |
| 3 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 4 | And the funny thing was I 've |
| 5 | The funny thing was I was asking Irene who she was because I could n't remember seeing her and then , later on , she came up to me as though she 'd known me , you know ? |
| 6 | Yes and the funny thing was I |
| 7 | Yet the funny thing was she did n't feel as though she would fall . |
| 8 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 9 | The second thing was I asked , and nobody picked it up , five , five years he 'd been working could the net earnings related carry forward ? |
| 10 | The worst thing was my Bible and books I had for Pat McDonald were gone too . |
| 11 | Anyway , the important thing was I was now safely inside the system . |
| 12 | But Fred was saying , er because , erm the dreadful thing was I could n't remember his name to start with I think I could try if I knew but I could n't remember what his christian name |
| 13 | The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we 'd been working . |
| 14 | The daft thing was there was a rose on her pillow . |
| 15 | and he could n't do it and the worse thing was everybody in the pool had gone go on |
| 16 | The only thing was they were n't white to harvest , they were n't even ready , the crop had not fully grown , and yet Jesus says it 's white , all ready to harvest , what is he speaking of ? |
| 17 | And it would have been good because it was per The only thing was he would have had to have gone up to and do a survival course . |
| 18 | The other thing was we do n't seem to be able to keep a manager for very long without eating them — they start to shake and have nervous breakdowns . |
| 19 | Erm oh yeah the other thing was it 's two sided at the moment , is that |
| 20 | ‘ The main thing was his big brown eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ You believe Jeff and Silvia have run away together , taking your speedboat with them out of spite — and you think the whole thing was my idea ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |