Example sentences of "the thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And all men kill the thing they love |
| 2 | The roofleaf became the thing they worship . |
| 3 | In that bitter paradox , he has given ‘ eyes to blindness ’ , made his eyes ‘ swear against the thing they see ’ ; similarly here , his judgement ‘ censures falsely ’ what his eyes ‘ see aright ’ . |
| 4 | Erm metal oxides , metal the oxides , differences see , this is the thing they 're all sort of quite keen on , so some of the important metals here . |
| 5 | No , play on the other thing — the thing they were n't quite mentioning . |
| 6 | seems to be the thing they 're all looking for . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've got it , big bro , that 's where they like to burrow best , and next to pigeon blood , the thing they like most is a nice drop of fresh semen . ’ |
| 8 | The nightmare thing , the thing they had said was her brother ( but she knew that this was impossible ) had killed him on the staircase . |
| 9 | People who write things like that make themselves as bad as the thing they attack . |
| 10 | Now , firms do go bankrupt , we know that , er , but in this case , the sort of , of the thing they 're trading in , is , is far more precious than er , holidays abroad , or , or three piece suites you ordered six months ago , |
| 11 | Yeah that 's the thing they have n't got time , yeah . |
| 12 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 13 | Somehow I feel as if it were purer — certainly it would be honester- ‘ to do the thing we fear ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The thing we all ask about Jenny |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the thing we 're good at , Patrick . |
| 16 | He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’ |
| 17 | The thing we 've all got to concentrate on , is the opportunity should be there , and they should be there for us |
| 18 | I think the thing we 've got ta be careful about , is also trying to er i if we ask everybody put all their analysis as such , we could start thinking panicking or whatever |
| 19 | Literally I think the only I said is the thing we get from the branches . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think the thing we want to avoid at all costs — I mean , I really feel quite strongly about this — is setting up some kind of Utopia — some kind of over-simplified Arcadia which would n't stretch the imagination of the … ’ |
| 21 | Now in the period that I come into it would be the First World War , when we had er , of course in these days , the thing we always , to look at the motor trade then , it was a follow up from the carriage trade . |
| 22 | And carried them a fair portion of the journey : " The thing we have that is different from every other faith is that Christ is a living Saviour . |
| 23 | The thing we all share is an overwhelming love of the show . |
| 24 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 25 | But now that we 've changed the thing we 've got to this is something we 've got to add into it |
| 26 | ‘ The thing we would stress is that this sort of thing is against the law . |
| 27 | The thing we have to do is keep improving our efficiency and competitiveness because our rivals are not standing still . |
| 28 | Oh is this the thing we went round the door with ? |
| 29 | Well it says on the , on the thing we have to fill in er if any of the speakers is of non |
| 30 | We were gon na wax his fucking legs argh , he did n't ar , he did , he was n't screaming cos the thing we said like if you move this , your , your will be slit sort of that 'll keep him dead still right |