Example sentences of "thing [conj] [verb] [is] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously it is not to be encouraged when you 're walking along with a bird on your glove , because the first thing that happens is the bird takes off . |
| 2 | The first thing that happens is an inversion of proportion , dramatic as Alice 's through the mirror : little things grow big , and big things disappear . |
| 3 | And the next thing that happens is an E sound . |
| 4 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 5 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 6 | So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know |