Example sentences of "thing [prep] [pron] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 2 | Well , I think the thing for me is I do n't feel like I have to look brilliant , I just like to have a good time . |
| 3 | And , the worse thing for me was I lost my self confidence , I had no confidence whatsoever. , . |
| 4 | Nicodemus , the important thing for you is you have got to be born again ! |
| 5 | The nice thing about him is his self-deprecating manner . |
| 6 | But the most remark able thing about him was his hair , unusually long for those days , and abundant — of the palest , curly blond , exactly the moonlight platinum colour of my own hair when I was a little boy . |
| 7 | She feels the most remarkable thing about her was her sense of " wholeness " . |
| 8 | The best thing about them is their smell . |
| 9 | The LP has just confirmed the fact that the most interesting thing about them is their hard-earned reputation as the hell-raising punks that everyone loves to hate . |
| 10 | After the heights scaled in that quarter-final , Ireland plunged to six feet under in this match proving , in the course of the game , that the only predictable thing about them is their unpredictability . |
| 11 | The nicest thing about them were their names . |
| 12 | But , you see the thing about it is we have got a take towns for what we make of them you see we could just all sit back , people say they 're bored ! |
| 13 | And the strange thing about it is they were all orphans . |
| 14 | One thing about it is you get plenty of fresh air here do n't you ? |
| 15 | The fact that there 's like a sort of stand off position between two individuals in the office , the stupid thing about it is she 's blaming for what 's happened to her and had nothing to do with it |
| 16 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 17 | ‘ The good thing about it was my crew was n't injured . |
| 18 | Well the good thing about you is you 're going out with someone here , that helps a lot . |
| 19 | But it 's not quite the same with sort of birthday cake with a fancy thing round it is it ? |
| 20 | Since then the Debenham Players has most definitely grown in size and support , the productions get better each time but still the members run the whole thing by themselves be it from costume making and lighting to front of house and stage construction . |