Example sentences of "[prep] thing [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we have geared our bills to the kind of thing they are used to . |
| 2 | They 're the same sort of thing they 're neutralizing each other . |
| 3 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |
| 4 | The other , more disturbing reading is that the Shakespearian phrases are made appropriate because the present situation reinterprets them in such a way that we are forced to wonder if a Burbank-Volupine situation was not just the sort of thing they were talking about all along . |
| 5 | Now for our purposes , the kind of thing we 're gon na do , is look at a much simpler breakdown of tourists . |
| 6 | What kind of libido Duncan is involved in the kind of thing we 're talking about ? |
| 7 | It also stars Geena Davis and Andy Garcia — here 's a flavour of the sort of thing we 're talking about . |
| 8 | It 's very good for revision , because it 's the type of thing your clients are going to be asking you , and it 's the type of thing we 're going to be asking you tomorrow . |
| 9 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 10 | Erm if you 'd like to look behind the hangar you 'll see the sort of thing we 're up against . |
| 11 | If we 're going to do any more quizzes this is the sort of thing we 're going to need to know to do well on the sports sections . |
| 12 | Nor do they describe the sort of thing we are supposed to like very much . |
| 13 | That 's the kind of thing we are trying to do all the time . ’ |
| 14 | This was the type of thing we were proud of . |
| 15 | He 's fuckin' weird , the sort of thing he 's into . |
| 16 | ‘ You know bloody well what sort of thing he 's likely to be referring to , Jim . ’ |
| 17 | That would seem to be the sort of thing he was humming . |
| 18 | After explaining a benefit it is sound practice to ask the buyer ‘ Is this the kind of thing you are looking for ? ’ |
| 19 | IT 'S the sort of thing you 're called on to do all the time . |
| 20 | ‘ But it 's the kind of thing you 're trying to push me towards . |
| 21 | Erm so that 's fine , to have a harsher lighting on his face is fine cos it does tend to show up the er the wrinkles in his forehead , under his eyes and his whiskers which is fine because when erm my old portraits of this nature , that 's the sort of thing you 're trying to emphasize . |
| 22 | Oh no it 's the same sort of thing you 're told it when you |
| 23 | Are you going to put Council Tax up two hundred pounds , because to , to , to meet all the demands of Council , well that 's the sort of thing you 're asking me to do . |
| 24 | Well er er as I observe the authorisation card is of general interest to us but it 's not the sort of thing you 're going to produce to a member of the public . |
| 25 | That 's the sort of thing you 're interested in is n't it ? |
| 26 | that one on your graph because it 's a real application that will apply to your work and it 's the sort of thing you 're going to be plotting anyway . |
| 27 | That ca n't be the kind of thing you 're thinking of then ? |
| 28 | Be careful I thought , this is the sort of thing you were warned against . |
| 29 | It should try to work out what sort of thing you were trying to say , and maybe be able to work out in , in a general way what you mean , but just need one extra piece of information to disambiguate what you 'd said . |
| 30 | Later Treat , who followed V as in Victim with other books in the same vein , was to say , " I did n't know I was writing police procedurals until somebody invented the term and said that was the kind of thing I was writing . " |