Example sentences of "thing [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other thing I I was n't sure and this is just my thoughts on it , you are using the stewards as as points where they 're going to be you know coordinating people and everything . |
| 2 | For one thing I I do n't think that the next generation of parents are going to stand it because with the , cos I told you what , what I said Neil about erm when er when he was a father I said if you had a pretty fifteen year old daughter would you want to have some rough oaf taking her down a back alley and screwing her ? |
| 3 | Another thing I I 've realized recently right , I , I have a brain , I can make decisions , I have an opinion |
| 4 | What matters is that we realise that they are being friendly , so we shout back , ‘ It 's a lovely day today , is n't it ? ’ , or some such thing which they probably will not hear anyway , but the idea of friendliness has been transferred , and both people are happy , although the words were quite unintelligible . |
| 5 | In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist . |
| 6 | The welfare of those they ruled and still more the greatness of the State ( now clearly separated from the ruler and the ruling dynasty ) dominated their calculations as never before ; indeed an ideal of State service was the one thing which they had in common . |
| 7 | Ambiguity of this kind and degree demonstrates very forcibly that words are not determined on a one-to-one basis by the idea or thing which they supposedly represent . |
| 8 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
| 9 | Now therefore the first thing which ye do after I have departed , wash my body with rose-water many times and well , as blessed be the name of God it is washed within and made pure of all uncleanness to receive his holy body to-morrow , which will be my last day . |
| 10 | For those who rear children , one of the most difficult tasks if not the most difficult , is learning the art of instilling and developing in the young mind that mysterious thing which we call the conscience . |
| 11 | Perhaps this was because Galileo had claimed of heat that its ‘ generally accepted notion comes very far from the truth … inasmuch as it is supposed to be a true accident , affection , and quality really residing in the thing which we perceive to be heated . ’ |
| 12 | Erm the thing which we keep daily is number six , is it ? |
| 13 | Er refreshments , everyone 's going to bring their own er packed thing which we 're going to share . |
| 14 | The one thing which we have n't got still are are er bells , |
| 15 | Cos that , I mean that 's the sort of thing which we get over the problem |
| 16 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 17 | That is our heritage and that 's our identity which we kept , and that 's one thing which we are very proud of . |
| 18 | It is ironic to think that the Opéra-Bastille has become popular at last with precisely the thing which it was conceived to counter : the superstar ! |
| 19 | One thing which it is difficult to deny is that military strength was vital for Muscovite survival in this massive frontier land . |
| 20 | write , you write and er feed into the thing which it operates along the rules defined by its firmware which someone else has put into it . |
| 21 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 22 | Another thing which I like about Singer/Superba machines when knitting lace , is the wide variety in the thickness of yarns it is possible to use on them . |
| 23 | There is another thing which I know you were thinking about a great deal , which all of us must think about . |
| 24 | until yo you 're actually gon na do it , sort of thing which I thought it was interesting . |
| 25 | ‘ V S Pritchett wrote a wonderful thing which I 've got pinned up above my desk : that you do n't invent a plot , you invent a character , and then the character leads you off and that becomes the plot . |
| 26 | Erm yes , well the high viewpoint obviously is er er a thing which I think makes the picture . |
| 27 | I was the last thing which I had anticipated , and the last thing which I sought . |
| 28 | I was the last thing which I had anticipated , and the last thing which I sought . |
| 29 | The other thing which I feel is important is that the section is supervised . |
| 30 | It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of . |