Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I know what you mean He 's not the nervous little thing he was . |
| 2 | She said apologetically " Well , he has had to be careful so long , watching every tiny little thing he does , I suppose … " |
| 3 | Dear little thing he was , just like Jenny had been at his age . |
| 4 | Inchbad had moved across to sit beside her and had taken her hand between his finger and thumb and was exclaiming what a pretty little thing she was and it the shame of the world that her brother had had to ride of land leave her all alone . |
| 5 | A pretty little thing it was , with dark hair : well , you 've seen Emily for yourself . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What a passionate little thing you are , Aphrosyne Taylor-Agathangelou — ’ A strange upheaval seemed to half strangle what he was saying . |
| 7 | Indeed , they have a psychological mechanism in their brains which impels them to follow the first large moving thing they see after they emerge from their shells , even if it is not their mother . |
| 8 | The cold smooth thing I was sitting on was a beer keg , which explained why my bum hurt as well . |
| 9 | Great big when they you know when they brought it in you know , a great big thing you know and we said , What 's this about ? |
| 10 | A fascinating new thing I learned during these sessions was ‘ feather care ’ , which , of course , comes under the general heading of the bird 's health and safety . |
| 11 | It 's almost the only profitable thing I did yesterday . ’ |
| 12 | " I do n't like beefburgers and things , so now and again I do proper cooking , like stews and puddings — that 's the only exciting thing I do . |
| 13 | Maybe dying is the only honest thing we do . |
| 14 | But it occurs to me that if they are having sex with their patients ( or clients ) regularly , this may well be the only useful thing they are doing for them . |
| 15 | I did the only decent thing I could do . |
| 16 | The only good thing I like about the fourth year , you 're doing the subjects you want to do but apart from that |
| 17 | The only good thing you can say about Man U is that they lost the league championship this season ( fancy getting beaten by Leeds ! ) . |
| 18 | About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again . |
| 19 | It says , in general continuous quality and company procedures , where they go a specific er , manual for the survey is lodged in the master job file and I suppose the only final thing they need is that , well Simon , you continue the surveys in their set up period , there may be a time when that manual does not exist , during the time we keep deciding . |
| 20 | The only new thing I could add was the prison bit , and Mrs McDougall had not told the girls anything about the offence of which Ewen had been convicted . |
| 21 | I mean the only other thing we could do would be |
| 22 | The the only other thing we could do would be to put would be to make colour acetates and then team brief them . |
| 23 | The only other thing we want to find out , so we know it looks something like this . |
| 24 | At least it was n't a garret , he would have said , which was the only other thing they 'd been offered . |
| 25 | ‘ The only other thing it should be reserved for is sex , ’ |
| 26 | That was about the only other thing she knew for sure . |
| 27 | The only other thing you have to be wary of when playing bream is their ability , whether intentional or otherwise , to glide in an arc on the end of your line rather like a kite in a strong wind . |
| 28 | Miss Milward said calmly : ‘ I think the only other thing you may need to know , Major , is the first Frau Eismark 's name . |
| 29 | The only other thing you could do |
| 30 | The only other thing I remember catching was my right thumb . |