Example sentences of "[adj] thing i " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Aunt Tossie really is rather tired , silly old thing I know — Done in , actually … |
| 2 | It 's the same old thing I 'm , I 'm what , I 'm called a coordinator , it 's all good saying we 're gon na put a mezzanine floor in one of those , you 've got to line the building out . |
| 3 | She , she , yeah she 's given it , oh well , we 've got to walk old thing I suppose , and then go to Lionel 's , get some more fresh fruit . |
| 4 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 5 | ‘ One further thing I have learnt from the wench . |
| 6 | One official later described the punishment as ‘ the most disgusting and barbarous thing I have ever seen ’ , thus it is not surprising that another official wrote that ‘ the native has a wholesome dread of the lash . ’ |
| 7 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |
| 8 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 9 | The other different thing I think is that it 's more of a one way communication . |
| 10 | Most to the point is Stendhal : ‘ I shall say nothing of Pompeii : it is the most astonishing , most fascinating , most entertaining thing I have ever come across ; only there can one get to know the ancient world . ’ |
| 11 | My parents thought my marriage was the first sensible thing I 'd ever done . |
| 12 | My favourite thing I like , my favourite subject 's chemistry . |
| 13 | ‘ But let me tell you — both of you , ’ darting a venomous look at Major Calder , ‘ that this is without doubt the most degrading and distasteful thing I 've ever been asked to do ! ’ |
| 14 | She considers this ‘ probably the most exciting thing I 've been involved with . |
| 15 | ‘ I was there for her birth and it was the most exciting thing I have ever experienced ! ’ exclaimed the father of the baby , and the owner of a home movie of strictly limited appeal . |
| 16 | ‘ Playing pool is about the most exciting thing I do now . ’ |
| 17 | " I do n't like beefburgers and things , so now and again I do proper cooking , like stews and puddings — that 's the only exciting thing I do . |
| 18 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 19 | There 's enough examples of that and you read , the most peculiar thing I , I think I was telling , I do n't know if I was telling Iris I have a notion I had , had it in my mind to tell you and you turned up with this blind girl to do this M C |
| 20 | That 's another thing I 've learnt in the police . ’ |
| 21 | Another thing I have noticed when the barbel are doing this somersaulting business is that there is very often a number of chub below the barbel . |
| 22 | I rather suspect it could lead to a lot of foul-hooked fish , which is another thing I deplore when done deliberately . |
| 23 | Another thing I have tried , which may turn out to be an even better proposition than sweetcorn or the like , is swimfeeder-fed luncheon meat . |
| 24 | ‘ Another thing I wanted to say . |
| 25 | And school was another thing I 'd had enough of . |
| 26 | But another thing I hear , which is n't necessarily solo work , but in a more orchestral sense , is roots and fifths . |
| 27 | ‘ Another thing I admired about young lads like Ken Logan , Gregor Townsend and Peter Wright is that they have the right attitude , a little bit of cockiness . |
| 28 | And that 's another thing I heard : it was n't only bairns and young lasses he collected , but furniture and foreign crockery , mostly from China , they say . |
| 29 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |
| 30 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |