Example sentences of "thing this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Uccello died in his eighties , ‘ He left a daughter who could design , and a wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective , and that when she called him to come to rest , he replied , ‘ Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is ! ’ |
| 2 | First thing this morning , Martha put a fifty-pound note into the pocket of an apron you subsequently wore , thinking it to be yours . ’ |
| 3 | I 've only known you since first thing this morning and I have n't had time to take everything in . |
| 4 | ‘ Did they have a lot about the thing this afternoon ? ’ |
| 5 | Though it does not mean to , the one thing this exhibition actually proves is that new Parisian painting after Hitler 's war had no benefit ( except commercial good fortune ) from the surroundings of the new bohemia . |
| 6 | Thank you for coming to talk to me , and why do n't you come with me to this thing this evening ? |
| 7 | If we ask ‘ Is this what was here last year ? ’ it matters what kind of thing this is . |
| 8 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the real thing this time , darling . |
| 10 | After visiting the bathroom first thing this morning , find your tape measure and make a note of your latest inch loss progress . |
| 11 | ‘ We got this thing this morning about your Men For Thingie , said the dairy writer . |
| 12 | ‘ Obviously Barcelona is the most important thing this season but it 's going to be different from four years ago . |
| 13 | I 'm not suggesting we all become missionaries , but if every one of us did just one charitable thing this week — visited someone old or sick , sent a food parcel to Africa , gave away a toy to a hospital ward or even took in a stray animal — then Christmas really would mean something . |
| 14 | What an incredibly complicated thing this baby business was if one did n't have a flair for it . |
| 15 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 16 | ‘ The one thing this game teaches you is control , ’ added Davis , no doubt referring to the missing quality that has cost Higgins dear over the years . |
| 17 | In fact , now I come to think of it , I 'll bet it was she who put that stink-bomb under my desk here first thing this morning . |
| 18 | First thing this morning we were lying in bed and I asked Polly whether she was real , but all she said was ‘ What the f— are you doing in my bed ? ’ so the jury 's still out on that one . |
| 19 | Me and all my friends ended up in this cult and the first thing this guy said we had to do was turn all of our friendships against each other so that we could n't trust anybody . |
| 20 | ‘ First thing this morning , more or less . ’ |
| 21 | I was horrified at the lack of concern … but that 's not the kind of thing this band addresses . ’ |
| 22 | The last thing this scene needed was a non-participating spectator and I am indeed grateful for that privilege . |
| 23 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 24 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 25 | Okay so they 're reactive erm Is this a good thing this radioactivity ? |
| 26 | ‘ I think Stephen wanted James to see the site first thing this morning before you took us down to the house , ’ Elaine said , and helped herself to a warm bun which she tore open , spreading it thickly with butter and lime jelly . |
| 27 | What a tremendously encouraging thing this is . |
| 28 | I mean i it 's it 's it 's funny thing this i It 's a thing what seems to creep up on you is n't it ? |
| 29 | And as we brought out first thing this morning , communication within the group , that is across the functions , and also in some cases within the functions , is poor . |
| 30 | So it 's not a new thing this . |