Example sentences of "thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the only thing me and that apology for a wench that I 'm forced to share this column with can agree on is that the Sega games are just too flamin' easy . |
| 2 | So the first thing I did was to spend ten years with the Royal Shakespeare Company ! |
| 3 | perhaps the only thing I feel proud of is this : No excuses . |
| 4 | ‘ The first thing I learned about nutrition as a nurse was that white food — fish and potatoes , for example — on white plates , with a white parsley sauce is unappetising purely because of its boring appearance . |
| 5 | ‘ There was one thing I remembered when the foreign gentleman was asking questions , ’ said Mary eagerly . |
| 6 | ‘ I keep telling you , Anne , that 's not the sort of thing I 'm looking for . |
| 7 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 8 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 9 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 10 | And that is the best thing I ever heard . ’ |
| 11 | A good thing I was free of it , as both sides in the dispute applied to me for further information in the course of the afternoon . |
| 12 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 13 | ‘ The only thing I really want is for Alonzo Kettless to carve me an East Suffolk Policeman 's helmet , ’ said Chief Superintendent Rom Rumsby on his retirement . |
| 14 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 15 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 16 | One thing I regret : the jettisoning of the original signature tune . |
| 17 | Until all that has died down , I will only say that the only thing I 'm bothered about is the well-being of the club . |
| 18 | We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’ |
| 19 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
| 20 | That 's the bravest thing I have ever heard of . |
| 21 | The only thing I would add is that you need to find out what you are good at ; you need to find out what it is you can contribute which other people ca n't and that is something which only you can find out for yourself . |
| 22 | It 's not a thing I 'm particularly good at , but I do try to put over our viewpoint . |
| 23 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 24 | The one thing I ca n't stand is cynicism . |
| 25 | ‘ For me work is more fun than fun and the one thing I was never trained for was leisure . ’ |
| 26 | The first thing I did when I got behind the houses was to get out of Nibs 's clothes . ’ |
| 27 | The only thing I can suggest is there 's a small pocket of fish causing the problem . |
| 28 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 29 | I remember lying in bed and the only thing I could see was the dim glow of the light bulb on the ceiling . |
| 30 | It 's the most beautiful thing I ever seen . |