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Example sentences for "fine thing"

  • Wegg imagined the mounds contained treasures hidden by the old man and thought it would be a fine thing to cheat Mr. Boffin out of them.

  • Then it was that Bob did a fine thing, which has caused the rest of us to look upon him as a real hero ever since.

  • It was a big moment for Andrew; he was on the verge of doing a fine thing, himself, and he stepped quickly to where Jesus stood.

  • It is a fine thing to have such credit; really, it is only in France these things are done.

  • You are certainly an extraordinary man," said Danglars; "and philosophers may well say it is a fine thing to be rich.

  • I saw it was a fine thing to get a prize, but it was ten times a finer thing to get drunk with a peer.

  • I must think it a fine thing, truly, to come abroad, and see foreign parts!

  • A banker or broker who gathered up these things from small tradesmen at ninety cents on the dollar made a fine thing of it all around if he could wait.

  • A fine thing I'd be doing for meself--objectin'.

  • I do not mean to say that in practice many persons are likely to thus bend the twig backwards; but it is no small evil to think that it would be a right thing, and a fine thing, to do even that which you never intend to do.

  • When you were spoony about Marjory Anne, you thought that once your donkey came, once you were fairly married and settled, what a fine thing it would be!

  • Over that book, if it be a prettily written tale, many young ladies will weep: and though without the faintest intention of imitating your hero's behaviour, they will think that it would be a fine thing if they did so.

  • It is a fine thing, sailors, to fear nothing; but it would be far finer to fear nothing because he is above all, and over all, and in you all.

  • It is a fine thing to be able to give people what they want, if at the same time you can give them what you want.

  • But I think that wull be a fine thing for a' of us.

  • Of coorse there'll be cases where women wall be thinking it a fine thing to stay at work and support themselves.

  • What a fine thing it is to be young, and in this time of the world too!

  • That would be a fine thing to do, for Teevan had seen her.

  • It will be a fine thing to do--he's so promising.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fine appearance; fine brown; fine colander; fine condition; fine effect; fine example; fine fellow; fine flour; fine form; fine green; fine laid; fine large; fine looking; fine paste; fine state; fine thing; fine time; fine view; fine white; fine woman; fine writing; finely chopped; great care; might even; nor could; young girls