Example sentences of "thing he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing he had in common with Cherry Morello , his stage persona , was a mega-mouth of repartee . |
| 2 | There is another leitmotif in this funny , happy ballet , the precious red umbrella , Alain 's only love — or so it would seem — for it is the one thing he clings to and simply has to find when he has lost Lise . |
| 3 | Rhetoric was a thing he would gladly have murdered ; and he had already carried out his theory of honest thinking at the expense of considerable financial and perhaps emotional sacrifices . |
| 4 | He said this summer that as he gradually wound down his involvement in sport , Henley would be the last thing he would give up . |
| 5 | The first thing he did on arriving in Manchester at the weekend was pop over unannounced to Billy Boston 's pub in Wigan , where his likeness jostles for space with the owner 's on the tap room wall . |
| 6 | One thing he has discovered since his global circumnavigation , is that it 's a big conversation killer . |
| 7 | ‘ And if there 's one thing he 's not , it 's cheap … ’ |
| 8 | The last thing he said to me on Wednesday , ’ Jack ’ ’ he said , ‘ I 'll get along to your rave-up on Friday even if I have to knock the guts out of her . |
| 9 | The one thing he never wanted was an acting career — ‘ I 'd seen that … ’ |
| 10 | That is the only thing he copies . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's the one thing he can outflank both Baker and Heseltine on . ’ |
| 12 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 13 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 14 | His sins of micro-commission were small ; and the macro thing he did not do was hardly a new failure . |
| 15 | Our coverage begins with the biggest thing he did , then turns to the biggest thing he left undone . |
| 16 | Our coverage begins with the biggest thing he did , then turns to the biggest thing he left undone . |
| 17 | Clive James should have stayed with book-reviewing : his destruction of ‘ Princess Daisy ’ must be the funniest thing he ever wrote , even though he admits that ‘ to pour abuse on a book like this makes no more sense than to kick a powder-puff ’ . |
| 18 | The bag is filled with religious tracts already autographed ; the first thing he does every day at six , when he gets up . |
| 19 | The only thing he wanted right now was to go back to Jubilee Wood . |
| 20 | When Philip woke , the first thing he thought of was the pheasants . |
| 21 | It was as if the only thing he cared about was the stupid thing . |
| 22 | The first thing he saw was his helmet hanging from the branch of a tree near his hide . |
| 23 | That was the last thing he wanted , his Dad coming out to the shed . |
| 24 | It was a good thing he knew the way so well . |
| 25 | Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared . |
| 26 | Still , it was another thing he could reproach Gina with that night in bed . |
| 27 | That was the only thing he knew for certain about himself . |
| 28 | His starting point was stand-up comedy the thing he still does best , in 15-minute monologues at the start of every show . |
| 29 | Getty believed in self-help , the philosophy of Samuel Smiles , though smiles were the last thing he could manage in public . |
| 30 | Tonight he must face the very thing he had always dreaded . |