Example sentences of "[verb] things [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll describe things as they were : Ruthven was slumped across the desk , his head on his arm , his face a whitish-blue , mouth open , eyes staring but sightless . |
| 2 | ‘ Nearly all supporters feel that their relative is not safe outside on their own , they spend a lot of time sitting around at home doing nothing , they can not occupy themselves , they seem unsteady on their feet , and naturally forget things that have just happened … . |
| 3 | Funny how you forget things when you ai n't got them no more . ’ |
| 4 | You know , I forget things and stuff like that . |
| 5 | What I am anxious to do is to find things that are not cynically made . |
| 6 | There was the lost child , in the forest , peering through windows , knocking at doors , creeping in from outside , trying to find things that fitted , food that was acceptable , chair , porridge , bed . |
| 7 | The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is . |
| 8 | Was I perhaps too busy noticing things that Dr Starkie was missing ( though what they might have been I ca n't for the moment think ) ? |
| 9 | Villagers say things that begin too well are likely to end badly : early peach blossom , early geese , early beauty , even early love , ‘ all will come to bad ends , like whistling girls and crowing hens ’ . |
| 10 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 11 | Say things that refer back to what the other person has said |
| 12 | apart from being positive in putting your point across and erm being clear in things that you say things that you do being strong about it |
| 13 | We argued — no , we do n't argue , I say things and he tries to wriggle out of them . |
| 14 | Another thing I wrote ( one writes things and the implications shriek — it 's like suddenly realizing one 's deaf ) , ‘ I must fight with my weapons . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't trust things or ideas . |
| 16 | These included things that presented bold shapes and vivid colouring with pattern and texture . |
| 17 | If we could send some of the people over there , to help them to retrain things and reorganise things . |
| 18 | Maybe I had exaggerated things and Gilly was n't such a bad old stick after all . |
| 19 | Formative evaluation ( to use the current jargon ) , is so obviously more important than summative , since you need to modify things as they develop rather than wring your hands over them when they have failed . |
| 20 | I told him how I could freeze my eidetic images , then project my phantom body into them , to discover things that I could not possibly have known . |
| 21 | For visitors and they want things that the locals do n't want , I said . |
| 22 | In those moments he had made her want things that some feminine instinct knew only he could provide . |
| 23 | Will we be able to get in before the day to check up on what colour we want things and yo , that sort of thing , you know you just you know ? |
| 24 | There 's no use in keeping things that you 're not gon na use okay ? |
| 25 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |
| 26 | Agnes made no comment on this statement ; yet all the while she was thinking , they should n't buy things that they ca n't afford , especially hats , from hard-working women like these . |
| 27 | I like old furniture and Scotland has some great junk shops where you can buy things that look nice , are good quality but are n't that expensive . ’ |
| 28 | Wh what was it common , I mean you were talking there about people would buy things that they never bought before ? |
| 29 | But we tried things that we 'd done in theory . |
| 30 | Angie 's one is really like hot and will dry things whereas this one takes a bit longer . |