Example sentences of "the [det] thing [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The least thing upsets her and she frequently strikes out at me . |
| 2 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 3 | Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that . |
| 4 | This brings me back to one of the many things shared by all three races . |
| 5 | It was a hundred and fifty years ago that the French writer Alphonse Karr said : ‘ the more things change , the more they are the same . ’ |
| 6 | The more things change the more they stay the same . |
| 7 | The more things change the more they stay the same . |
| 8 | The more things change , the more they stay the same : taking a leaf from our own book , InformationWeek says it procured an internal IBM memo written June 26 by the director of advanced workstations and AIX systems Jeff Mason telling staffers not to push System/3x users to the RS/6000 , which he himself is responsible for , for fear of undercutting sales of the company 's highly profitable higher margin AS/400s . |
| 9 | The more things change , the more they stay the same . |
| 10 | Er the same things happens with nouns and verbs and other things and in Ja Japanese again I think you find that the same words are pronounced differently . |
| 11 | It goes north again , to the town of Ekron , but the same things happen there . |
| 12 | A diet that involves uncommon foods or drinks , or the same things repeated over and over again , is not a basis for long-term success . |
| 13 | We 'll meet here , on the same day , in two years ' time , at seven o'clock , and we 'll have exactly the same things to eat , and tell each other quite frankly in what ways we 've changed . |
| 14 | We can ask , for instance , whether it enjoys any or all of the experiences , ‘ seeing the same thing moving ’ , ‘ seeing one thing being replaced by another ’ , ‘ seeing a thing of a particular shape ’ , and ‘ seeing a thing being transformed into another ’ . |
| 15 | The same thing took place at St John 's Wood and now he thought he knew who and what they were . |
| 16 | she had the same thing done erm last year |
| 17 | Martina 's having the same thing done . |
| 18 | the same thing got the same make , I mean I can say well this is cheaper we 'll you know |
| 19 | And of course the same thing applied with clothes and shoes , they always inspected the cleansiness and if your shoes had holes in or anything then once in a while there were new ones came in and y you were fitted out . |
| 20 | Alliance leader John Alderdice said he did not find Mrs Robinson 's handshake with Gerry Adams a ‘ helpful ’ contribution and the same thing applied to the Republic 's constitutional claim . |
| 21 | So that 's twenty two years go , and ecstasy , I think 's only the same thing reoccurring . |
| 22 | However , someone seeing you may do the same thing using a crude ‘ dead man ’ to hold the fuselage upright . |
| 23 | Now do the same thing using thin ( e.g. diluted ) household bleach . |
| 24 | The letter always has the same thing to say . |
| 25 | That 's right , yeah she 'll be going through all the same thing trying to get money |
| 26 | Much the same thing occurs in New Statesman & Society , but there is a significant shift here in that we begin to see cultural products ( or rather questions raised by them ) being discussed outside of the journal 's cultural space — in the editorials and in guest journalists ' comments . |
| 27 | The same thing happens when , later in the essay , Eliot defines the limitation of Pound 's kind of criticism ( for ‘ any kind of criticism has its limitations ’ ) : ‘ The limitation of Pound 's kind is in its concentration upon the craft of letters , and of poetry especially ’ . |
| 28 | With established acts the same thing happens . |
| 29 | The same thing happens with Pele 's tears ; they draw off behind them a long hair-like tail of glass , which may be a metre or more long . |
| 30 | The same thing happens in the world of sport — and once again it is usually the father who is the driving force . |