Example sentences of "[art] thing i [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 2 | I said oh I 'm not gon na give you my telephone number after the things I 've been hearing about you ! |
| 3 | For example , one of the things I 've been doing today is submitting titles for Waterstones ’ summer reading promotion ; they are sponsoring a 32 page supplement in Elle , and are doing a run-on . |
| 4 | ‘ So do I ; it 's one of the things I 've been missing about Australia — that and the sun . ’ |
| 5 | I kept doing all the things I 'd been taught . |
| 6 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 7 | We began by talking about food , but food quickly became boring and was replaced by feelings , the things I had been trying to stuff down with food . |
| 8 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 10 | ‘ One of the things I missed was having access to things like phones and being able to make contacts . ’ |
| 11 | The thing I learnt was to turn conflict round so that it was n't a negative thing , it was a cool thing . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose . |