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 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The other different thing I think is that it 's more of a one way communication . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | My parents thought my marriage was the first sensible thing I 'd ever done . |
| 11 | My favourite thing I like , my favourite subject 's chemistry . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | She considers this ‘ probably the most exciting thing I 've been involved with . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Playing pool is about the most exciting thing I do now . ’ |
| 16 | " 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 20 | ‘ That is the very first foolish thing I have ever heard you say , young lady , ’ Mr O'Hara replied with a smile . |
| 21 | It had six million viewers and it 's by far the most popular thing I 've done , but I do think it was watched by all types and ages of people . ’ |
| 22 | Erm yes and it 's , it 's funny thing I have n't sent things to the College with , with the other stuff that went out , but , er we have , I have spoken to Michael about College , yeah I mean . |
| 23 | Er I often ask what 's life like , and the funny thing I 've got a son in it now , I 've got a son who 's a station officer in , in Colchester , and my daughter just married a fireman from , from Road so , so we 're still involved |
| 24 | We 're off er well York this funny thing I got to see that it all goes through for my dad . |
| 25 | Oh funny thing I was having a look at one of Carrie 's , she 's got the Radio Times which we do n't get , only at Christmas time . |
| 26 | The most sort of personal thing I suppose , erm , let the group open . |
| 27 | ‘ It was the most gruesome thing I 've ever seen , ’ said Nigerian-born Dr Alban — real name Alban Nwapa , who this week has shot to No 2 with It 's My Life . |
| 28 | " It 's a nervous thing I have . " |
| 29 | What was that large thing I had last night mum ? |
| 30 | Because it 's a national thing I mean it 's something the company is hoping to go forward with the time it 's a government initiative , if we are offering trainee managers when they join us an , an N V Q and they do n't get it at the end of their training . |