Example sentences of "thing i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't that the very thing I am trying to prevent ? ’ |
| 2 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 3 | This is because in saying what something looks like to me I am not saying something about something other than the thing I am looking at , its look . |
| 4 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 5 | ‘ Good thing I 'm wearing mother 's emeralds , ’ Emily whispered to her aunt , ‘ you wo n't see finer gems than mine anywhere in this room . ‘ |
| 6 | The only thing I 'm bent out of shape about is that nobody knows it 's a different pickup ; everyone thinks it 's a regular Trembucker ! |
| 7 | ‘ I keep telling you , Anne , that 's not the sort of thing I 'm looking for . |
| 8 | From a general mass of information I can usually pick out the precise thing I 'm looking for |
| 9 | In particular one thing I 'm dealing with is black women going out with white men , which is a big issue now . |
| 10 | That 's one thing I 'm fixed on . |
| 11 | ‘ The only thing I 'm thinking of is to get that desire back into the side . |
| 12 | the thing I 'm thinking about , I mean terribly keen on , you know , training wh whatever the basis for it is , I mean , we do n't want to start a discussion on that . |
| 13 | P O A by the way , another thing I 'm thinking of doing is saying , if you want a net price enter in there , it has to come through a manager or |
| 14 | oh if it , if it was if it w if it was that one I think , I think there was some dis if , if it 's the thing I 'm thinking of there was some discrepancy , I think it was alright in the s on one occasion there was some stuff which I could n't find at the end |
| 15 | The only other thing I 'm using right now is a Korg A2 ; it 's got all the effects I need in it . |
| 16 | but that , that but that 's the whole thing I 'm saying . |
| 17 | The other thing I 'm wondering whether I should do the Petroline order which in fact flew on its first leg to Rome yesterday . |
| 18 | I think better on a full stomach — but I know one thing I 'm doing immediately after breakfast . ’ |
| 19 | So th that 's that 's the sort of thing I 'm doing . |
| 20 | The o , the only thing I 'm doing now is the subjects that I want to do |
| 21 | thing I 'm doing . |
| 22 | But last night at his home in Bradford , he said : ‘ The first thing I 'm going to do is have it cut . |
| 23 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 24 | The other thing I 'm going to talk about are intervals . |
| 25 | Erm , the , the other important thing I 'm going to give you , the information as , as Mike said , a lot of people , I 'm not sure of the percentages , do carry on using this particular barrier system , and the other important piece of information is that when you need to reorder something there 's an extraordinarily nice gentleman in your stationary stores called Mr. Cartwright , and he is the person that does all the ordering . |
| 26 | The only thing I 'm asking you to do is put them in the diary now . |
| 27 | " I keep the position-register for all our ships — it 's about the only thing I 'm allowed to do nowadays , since all the secretarial work goes to Mr. Lennis 's bright young things . |
| 28 | Erm I 'm g one thing I 'm gon na do is ask if she 'll flag major changes when she produces the new telephone directories . |
| 29 | the thing I 'm gon na concentrate on with you now is sto to stop you running away . |
| 30 | That 's another thing I 'm gon na get her on ! |