Example sentences of "[adv] these thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 2 | You know how long these things can take through normal channels … . |
| 3 | Do n't know very difficult to tell the time now how er , how long these things were |
| 4 | In fact , as is so often the case , she does all these things because her life is so full : ‘ Gardening is therapy from the pressures of life . |
| 5 | Indeed , it has actually done all these things and more — yet there is no internal , legal mechanism to resist such measures . |
| 6 | Since he had , like them , done all these things , it was an easy step for ageing trendies — who hated the cultural conservatism of Ronald Reagan and George Bush — to believe that he was going to act on the things that most concerned them . |
| 7 | I do n't understand why I 've done all these things . ’ |
| 8 | The board elected to do just these things . |
| 9 | Absolutely , and that 's whey we 've got international agencies looking at exactly these things . |
| 10 | And can you give an indication of how quickly these things could be ordered in an emergency ? |
| 11 | And it 's sod 's law you know because nearly always these things happen |
| 12 | There is however a problem , if one is trying to do both these things at the same time . |
| 13 | It 's sobering to note that while the British have a mass of facetious academics for each real intellectual , and hardly any big fat writers on the lines of the US , Angela Carter , at the time of Nights at the Circus , was both these things to a world-class degree . |
| 14 | There is one fish , alive today , which manages to do both these things — the mudskipper . |
| 15 | Now these things used to break windows obviously , you can imagine it ca n't you ? |
| 16 | And now these things huh ? |
| 17 | Erm yeah now these things these things could translate into sort of um |
| 18 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 19 | Thank you erm I hardly ever comment on these but I just , I was n't sure what because quite often these things go under another guise , but there are a number of schemes on the drawing board for investigation as you all know and Mr will know some of those they 've been around for , for some years . |
| 20 | Very often these things will at least ease , if not heal . ’ |
| 21 | Well these things may er describe erm sexual behaviour and how to facilitate it , but they ca n't explain it and nor are they really fundamental , because after all okay in mammals males may be the sex defined by the X chromosome , but in birds it 's the other way round in birds it 's the female chromosome and all , in other words , all bird embryos start , start out as male and differentiate into females if they 're going to , whereas in mammals all embryos start out as female and differentiate into males , in so far as those terms have any sense . |
| 22 | Um and I think there 's some acknowledgement in these quotes I 've got under end results , classifications and syndromes which um I suppose there 's some acknowledgement that maybe these things were adaptive at the time but maybe once people are grown up they 're not quite so adaptive . |
| 23 | Unfortunately these things can take much time . |
| 24 | ‘ But unfortunately these things happen quite a lot in this business . ’ |
| 25 | There 's this guy , see , he thinks he 's pretty street-smart , but sometimes these things happen , he 's not so sure , and he wonders , can he really tell about this one particular girl , who he really likes her , but you ca n't tell by looking , can you ? ’ |
| 26 | I think sometimes these things crop up |
| 27 | In Constantine 's eyes , apparently , Jesus had attempted to be precisely these things . |
| 28 | Erm it allows domestic farmers to produce their so they go on to the world market and they 've got everybody else these things |
| 29 | Again these things happen as they do happen , the magic narrative containing spur-ofthe-moment impulse within trancelike inevitability . |