Example sentences of "[verb] all [art] things " in BNC.
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1 | How much , we wondered , would it cost to live like royalty , or the very rich , to pay someone to come in and do all the things us ordinary folk have to do for ourselves . |
2 | Together they had done all the things that she had wanted to do and never been allowed to : gone to Coney Island , licked lollipops on the front there , enjoyed herself in funfairs , and ridden on the Big Wheel . |
3 | ‘ He could have gone back later and done all the things he claimed to have done … ’ |
4 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
5 | Because we are engaged in practical actions of great complexity , which we nevertheless ‘ pull off ’ day after day , we have little time to stand back and analyse how we do all the things that we do . |
6 | The tenants , on the other hand , had long since realised that if they could n't boil a kettle or breathe and do all the things normal families do without causing condensation dampness , then there must be something wrong with the houses , not with the people who live in them . |
7 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
8 | This figure contains all the separate information-processing components which seem to be needed to explain how we do all the things we can do with verbal stimuli , plus arrows indicating pathways of communication between these components . |
9 | Slater sighed wistfully , " Do all the things I would n't dream of doing , but do n't forget what your Uncle Richard told you . " |
10 | ‘ You go , ’ she said to Mrs Chamberlin , ‘ You go and do all the things you have to do . |
11 | Straightforward electronic testing of the assembly , that is , seeing if it does all the things it should , is slow , costly and may still fail to reveal some imperfections . |