Collocations withthing
These are words often used in combination withthing.
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amazing thing
Never got over it, it is the most amazing thing.
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annoying thing
That is the annoying thing.
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astonishing thing
The most astonishing thing about the structure is the relation of building to landscape, not only strikingly beautiful but seemingly unforced and effortless.
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awful thing
After all, that is the most awful thing in the world.
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beautiful thing
That's a beautiful thing to stage and not easy.
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best thing
It is the best thing that could happen for us.
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bizarre thing
They used to say some quite bizarre things.
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closest thing
Thus, this dataset represents the closest thing to a universe of advertisements that exists for these races.
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cool thing
No big heavy reasoning behind that, really, it just seemed like a cool thing to do.
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crazy thing
This was the crazy thing about this song.
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cruel thing
It is a cruel thing to be on the borderline, particularly at this time.
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cute thing
She is very fond of cute things.
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dangerous thing
To organize a ' stampede ' is a dangerous thing to do under any circumstances.
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disgusting thing
It is a horrible, disgusting thing, and you can never make it into anything else.
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dreadful thing
The possibility of that dreadful thing happening does not give me a moment's anxiety.
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evil thing
And now here was the novelist dragging me into the whole evil thing.
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exciting thing
To me, the really exciting thing in contemporary neuroscience is the confirmation of the fruitfulness of a conceptual nervous system.
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extraordinary thing
The most extraordinary thing, indeed, about that extraordinary man is the tenacity of his survival in the minds and memories of those who knew him.
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foolish thing
That appeared to me to be a most foolish thing to do.
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frightening thing
That was a much more frightening thing to do.
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fun thing
Shopping ought to be a fun thing.
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funny thing
A funny thing happened to us on the way to the latent entities.
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good thing
Perhaps this can be a good thing, encouraging more careful listening.
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greatest thing
I thought it was the greatest thing that had ever happened in the mining industry.
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hard thing
But this can be an immensely hard thing to do, especially in prehistoric archaeology.
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honourable thing
What, then, was the honourable thing which we ought to have done?
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horrible thing
It doesn't matter how much you tell them that is not going to be a horrible thing.
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important thing
This is one important thing that happens during the campaign period.
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incredible thing
The incredible thing is that not one lion.
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interesting thing
The interesting thing about complexity is that it results from simplicity.
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kind thing
From that point, certainly, we are going to have to think very carefully about whether it is morally right to do the honest or kind thing.
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little thing
A little thing like that makes the difference between an idea and the complete song.
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living thing
The nature of any living thing is its soul.
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main thing
The main thing for us was that a march provided a platform for the music.
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marvellous thing
It was a marvellous thing, we made our own scene, and realized the need to take music out of the classroom into practical experience.
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mundane thing
Because of this difficulty, ramified type systems sometimes include downward coercion rules to bring mundane things down to mundane type levels.
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nasty thing
It could be a very nasty thing for the rest of the world.
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nearest thing
In an almost parallel movement, the nearest thing to philology which went on in schools - the teaching of grammar - was also progressively eradicated from the school curriculum.
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nice thing
It was just a nice thing that he did.
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non-living thing
Lesions affecting the sensory units lead to marked impairments in identifying living things; lesions affecting the functional units affected non-living things more than living things.
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odd thing
The odd thing here is that the data and analysis don't match.
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only thing
The only thing was that it was done privately.
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other thing
While we were fighting, they would do no other thing other than sell their homeland.
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outrageous thing
That doesn't seem like an outrageous thing to say, though large numbers of philosophers seem attached to a sharp dichotomy between cognitive and non-cognitive attitudes.
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peculiar thing
The peculiar thing about scientific demonstration is that, provided the other fellow can understand the argument, the evidence compels assent.
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positive thing
Most people know that voting in elections is considered a positive thing to do.
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remarkable thing
For a work of philosophy to have such a wide audience is a truly remarkable thing.
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right thing
Each will freely choose to do the right thing.
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sad thing
The sad thing is that this problem goes back almost to the beginning of time.
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scary thing
The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy.
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sensible thing
If the first trial is the only one that is performed, then it is a sensible thing to do.
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shocking thing
That's a much less shocking thing today than it was then.
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silly thing
Even from the lowest and meanest point of view it was a silly thing to do.
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sort of thing
Narrow interests might not be well served by this sort of thing, but other insights compensate.
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strange thing
The only strange thing about load is the way it is implemented.
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striking thing
But the most striking thing about these rules is how they attended almost entirely to appearances.
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surprising thing
The surprising thing is not that employers did so little but that they did so much.
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tangible thing
If it is a letter, it is a tangible thing dealing with that specific matter.
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terrible thing
This is a terrible thing to work with.
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trivial thing
It seems unnecessary to envisage all this happening over such a trivial thing.
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unfortunate thing
Uncertainty breeds fear, and fear is a most unfortunate thing to have in any country.
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unkind thing
A difference of opinion is permissible, but that was a rather unkind thing to say.
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useless thing
We think that 12 months' experience will show that it is a useless thing.
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very thing
This later handbook was written with this very thing in mind.
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weird thing
The patient focus is supposed to be taken into account by a weird thing called the balanced scorecard approach.
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whole thing
This is really the crux of the whole thing.
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wild thing
It is an encounter which must entail both knowledge of the animal and respect for it as a wild thing.
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wise thing
We do not think it was a wise thing to do.
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wonderful thing
The wonderful thing about creativity is that it is not platform specific and requires no budget.
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