Example sentences of "thing is [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig : ‘ The funny thing is we had a piss-take album title which was taking the piss out of that whole thing , which we all found was funny . |
| 2 | The other thing is we had a lengthy meeting with the District Council a couple of days before the Gipsy Working Party . |
| 3 | The thing is we did it right , we did it in the nappy , then we fucking put him spread-eagled on a bench and me mate ran off to get the shaving kit stuff and this fucking this people who 's erm , looking wom , girls in there and everything , real fucking pissed up |
| 4 | you see , no it is n't a brilliant idea but the thing is we did n't have much further to walk can we ? |
| 5 | Thing is I had some wool and I had the thing . |
| 6 | Thing is I did n't like to ask her about her mum because er , did n't think she , she was very quite bad a few years ago when I knew her . |
| 7 | And and the thing is I did n't understand it . |
| 8 | Hammersmith coroner Dr John Burton said : ‘ The extraordinary thing is she did not die immediately but lay there for days and was virtually dead when she was found . |