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Example sentences of "thing i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But there 's one thing I 'll hold to , I 'll have my own bed tomorrow night and you make your own arrangements for next door .
2	Plain you pay for the thing I 'll pay for these go on .
3	‘ If I ever catch our Jane on the back of that thing I 'll give you both barrels , ’ bawled Tiny over his shoulder .
4	‘ The very first thing I 'll do when I get 'ome is take her a bunch of flowers .
5	I I do n't thing I 'll do a single
6	The only thing I 'll have
7	There 's one thing I 'll say for history .
8	And while I 'm on , there 's another thing I 'll say : I regret the day I was made to marry him .
9	I think the only thing I 'll say , you know , it 's been a real odd situation , really , horse for your bit , you reckon how well do I know this person .
10	I also went to Prague , Czechoslovakia , hardly sun sangria and sea , Councillor but one thing I 'll say about Prague , and this is where all the arguments about Brussels fall down , it 's alright to go to Brussels and not to Prague .
11	‘ One thing I 'll allow you … if we really ca n't agree on something — say , like going out on night calls — then you shall decide . ’
12	But it 's the kind of thing I would do , she thought , despising herself .
13	That 's the last thing I would do , you know .
14	The last thing I would want to do is be unkind to people who have given me an extremely successful show .
15	THE last thing I would want to see and hear over my corn flakes is Anne Diamond , lovely though she is , presenting syrupy , romantic drivel written by Dame Barbara Cartland .
16	I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be .
17	‘ Well , after my travails upon this sad world are done , the last thing I would want is to view eternity from the inside of a bottle . ’
18	The last thing I would want to have to sell to my constituents is the idea that they should go into that bloody mess and be shot at by the bandits on both sides .
19	I if I was a building the last thing I would want would be people gawping at me .
20	Now the only thing I would criticize that for is that , quite often , your councillors , and you all know , think they are all wonderful words and I think they all think that they 're the Churchills of of of of our local council , but actually what they say is a load of boring old twaddle .
21	‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest .
22	‘ The very last thing I would wish to do in the , er … present circumstances , ’ he said awkwardly , ‘ is to create any difficulties for you , Mrs Copley .
23	The first thing I would point to is that our training costs for last year averaged out at £5,100 per trainee .
24	yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it .
25	And I suppose , I mean if I was to answer the question was it a good thing I would have to say no .
26	The last thing I would have wanted was for you to become emotionally involved with me . ’
27	One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig .
28	The other period erm the other thing I would like your advice on erm did you , you did n't note all this ?
29	‘ Before we go there 's one thing I would like to do .
30	The other thing I would like to make sure and this applies also to the members of the public as well as those people who are participating in the discussion , could you please make sure that you have registered for the day .