Example sentences of "the thing [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was gon na say they ai n't got the things to do it . |
| 2 | Well can I make a suggestion that you add it all to the list of the things to discuss it is . |
| 3 | ‘ The Thing said it 's a room where humans wait to get on an aeroplane , ’ said Masklin . |
| 4 | The Thing said it was cold in space , and there was no air . |
| 5 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |