Example sentences of "[verb] be [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , different utilities , different roads are being destroyed , bridges , I mean are these things going on ? |
| 2 | But whether it is the right thing to do is another thing . |
| 3 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 4 | It might have been that thing that er that bloke puts in them . |
| 5 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 6 | Gone are those things we loved to hate . |
| 7 | I 've been many things in my life , but I 'm not a liar . ’ |
| 8 | There have been many things said by earlier speakers and very few of them I disagree with . |
| 9 | I have been many things in my time . |