Examples:

1. I just can't figure out how to put that thing on that thing.
2. I'm quite certain I'm doing the right thing.
3. That's the last thing we need.
4. If it isn't one thing, it's another.
5. We all need the same thing.
6. Same thing. Here's how it is.
7. You have done no such thing.
8. That's the first thing you've said I don't believe.
9. Why did that have to be a bad thing?
10. I've seen a thing or two.
11. They have such little time to do this dumb thing of theirs-- This baninski thing.
12. But I don't know a thing.
13. But is such a thing possible?
14. L'm only sad about one thing.
15. You've got to get that thing out of here.
16. Oh, I don't know. Same thing
17. And, if you could do this little old thing for me we could see a lot more of each other.
18. Why would you say such a thing?
19. I never saw anybody that would do such a thing.
20. He won't get away with a thing.
21. Try and get this one little thing right.
22. Well, no, there's one little thing.
23. There's only one thing we can do.
24. Well, there's only one thing to do.
25. How much did you pay for that thing?
26. First thing Wednesday after I get paid, Will. First thing Wednesday, I promise.
27. I don't know you, for one thing.
28. Well, l'm not up to a thing.
29. I don't know if this is the same thing or not.
30. That's why I'd never do such a thing.

Definitions of Near thing:

1. Something that barely avoids failure or disaster