Example sentences of "thing you [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People moving in , this was in the medical practice , people moving in new er new er new first things you do is register with a doctor . |
| 2 | After you have mimicked , always listen again to each utterance so that the last thing you hear is him/her and not yourself . |
| 3 | You are at the moment , the best thing you get is to be in the top hundred . |
| 4 | ‘ The next thing you gain is the confidence of the other divers on the team . |
| 5 | ‘ I live 20 minutes away from the set , but when you are working 16 hours a day the last thing you need is to be in a foreign country with a small child . |
| 6 | The first thing you need is a sympathetic GP who will just listen and explain exactly what this illness is . |
| 7 | But the one occasion when you do n't , the thing you need is the one thing you do n't have ! ’ |
| 8 | The other thing you need is a chest X-ray , and that 's very important er to see exactly what degree of trouble is going on . |
| 9 | The last thing you need is another concussion . ’ |
| 10 | The only thing you love is the workings of your own mind . |
| 11 | The first thing you do is drop your bottom and push with your legs to make use of your weight . |
| 12 | When you catch something like this , the first thing you do is give in to it . |
| 13 | ‘ Down amongst the fish , the last thing you do is start flapping . |
| 14 | If you want a leakproof roof , the last thing you do is put holes in it . |
| 15 | ‘ McAllister was heading away from the danger area , and the last thing you do is dive in and risk conceding a spot-kick . |
| 16 | Erm , the first thing you do is a central policy thing , a major function is to analyze , interpret and develop strategic responses responses to all major Government legislation . |
| 17 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 18 | So the first thing you do is turn off your gas . |
| 19 | But , as James Fenton wrote in a piece about The Killing Fields published in Tatler , with specific reference to Al Rockoff : ‘ More or less the only thing you do is try to get as close as possible to people who are killing each other — and take photographs of them . |
| 20 | Well the first thing you do is start thinking of lots of possibilities you see . |
| 21 | ‘ When you fall off a horse , the first thing you do is climb back on . |
| 22 | The first thing you do is announce half way through a year that they 're gon na put back some , but not all , of the money they cut from the budget . |
| 23 | The first thing you do is announce half way through a year that they 're gon na put back some , but not all , of the money they cut from the budget . |
| 24 | And the first thing you do is demand that we have butter in the house . |
| 25 | oh yeah bu you see , er er , you 're not supposed to life anything for if one of my grandsons falls over , the first thing you do is pick him up you know ! |
| 26 | If there are four to do , so you 'll all again at least twice and the best thing you have is you have more practice er so are you all clear on what you have to do , what you 're allotted to have to sell ? |
| 27 | It 's when you you tend to say first thing you say is ca n't do that then you think , Oh well we get the we have to do it just playing silly game we get these funny numbers . |
| 28 | When you get called out at 2am and it 's pouring with rain , the last thing you want is a car that wo n't start . |
| 29 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
| 30 | It 's going to be a very emotional day and the last thing you want is panda eyes ! |