Example sentences of "thing i [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing I 'll not abide , and that 's a suspicious wife . " |
| 2 | I know one thing I 'll not be eating at the buffet . |
| 3 | This may be the last thing I 'll ever see ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ One thing I 'll always remember about her — that little cat tattoo just above her navel . ’ |
| 5 | The one thing I ca n't stand is cynicism . |
| 6 | ‘ I can cope with football but one thing I ca n't cope with is treachery , and that 's what I had at Swindon . ’ |
| 7 | Lies , Douglas , if there 's one thing I ca n't thole it 's a lie . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've talked about several islands , ’ I said , ‘ but there 's one thing I ca n't get straight . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 11 | And if there 's one thing I ca n't stand it 's the smell of curry . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's one thing I ca n't stand and that 's messing around with other men 's wives . |
| 13 | Well this is the thing I ca n't understand , especially Mark and that . |
| 14 | It 's the only thing I ca n't make ! |
| 15 | Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity . |
| 16 | As a university member , I think the thing I would most like to have happen is to be accepted as an ordinary person in the place I live and the people I meet with . |
| 17 | Erm well I think erm the first thing I would probably do would be try and explain what your what the rights your rights were , and what sort of benefits you were entitled to . |
| 18 | If I bought a thing I would n't want another man |
| 19 | I tell you one thing I would n't like to be him ! |
| 20 | But one thing I wo n't tolerate is your continued manner towards Marion . |
| 21 | The only thing I might not , it 'cause they said they might make one with a C D R O M drive . |
| 22 | Have I lost whatever talent for this kind of thing I might once have had ? |
| 23 | But one thing I shall not do is belittle the wonder of the living " watches " that so inspired Paley . |
| 24 | Do the one thing I should n't . |
| 25 | I 'm not what you 'd call the retiring type , and I rarely flinch from a fight when I 'm sure of my own righteousness ; but there is one thing I can not cope with , and that is unprovoked aggression . |
| 26 | Here is another thing I can not understand . |
| 27 | There is one thing I can not understand about the Labour party policy . |
| 28 | You know another thing I can really ask technical questions . |
| 29 | Tracy has a thing I can only describe as Non-specific pain . |
| 30 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |