Example sentences of "thing be that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , so I mean the thing is that we 've always said have n't ya as long as you can sort of get 'em down |
| 2 | Do n't let it slip straight away , I mean That was annoying thing is that we did n't deserve to lose three one really , I mean |
| 3 | Well it 's neither here nor there but I mean the thing is that we do n't as it is we 're not losing anything because you 're getting yours , half of it 's coming back as , as gross interest . |
| 4 | The main thing is that we have now completed over forty films . |
| 5 | The thing is that they do not seem to touch . |
| 6 | The ironic thing is that he does n't owe us anything anyway . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
| 8 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more . |
| 10 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 11 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't mind where I go , but I prefer opening , and the main thing is that you know where you are . ’ |
| 13 | The important thing is that you do n't feel hungry . |
| 14 | So National Savings , that 's not a bad decision , cos I mean National Savings are absolutely secure , and the other thing is that you do n't need to put twenty five thousand pounds in to get the highest rate , you 'll get the highest rate from two thousand pounds upwards , so it 's very good for small amounts . |
| 15 | The interesting thing is that it does n't seem to influence our particular habit-forming er , take-up rates , and it does n't influence it because there is this lag period between starting smoking and developing lung cancer or developing heart disease or developing verofa ves vascular disease . |
| 16 | ‘ The terrifying thing was that they did n't speak . |
| 17 | The overt thing was that we came in from outside , but I think the hidden thing was that we were women . |
| 18 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 19 | Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything . |
| 20 | The important thing was that it go forward only with the element of surprise . |
| 21 | But the odd thing was that it did n't fill me with the slightest sense of humility or feelings about the separateness and ‘ otherness ’ of nature , but with sheer , shouting joy at sharing that old world on a new morning with my wild Scots kinfolk . |
| 22 | The strange thing was that it did not occur to her then to follow the Way Out signs , leave the station and go out into the street where a taxi could be found . |
| 23 | O=only the the only thing was that you had n't got enough room to display everything that you could stock , is n't it . |