Example sentences of "[prep] thing [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said yeah , although I was more into soul music at the time , the sort of thing they played in pubs : Kool & The Gang , Earth Wind & Fire , even Michael Jackson before he was an industry . |
| 2 | And the kind of thing they made of course erm were just short moments of motion , short silent films which showed action which lasted about a minute . |
| 3 | It was probably the sort of thing they gave medals for , if you were interested . |
| 4 | ( Yes , all you Guardian and Independent readers , that 's the sort of thing they wanted your £30 for … ) |
| 5 | It was just the sort of thing we had seen on Starsky and Hutch . |
| 6 | That was the sort of thing we had to contend with at Ullapool ; no one really wanted us around , it was no wonder that this jewel of the west was most unpopular with our crews . |
| 7 | After the shooting , Joaquin Villalobos , an FMLN leader , was quick to denounce the police , saying that ‘ this is the kind of thing we thought was over . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Radio , cyphers , handling explosives , the sort of thing we got at Wanborough in the old days . ’ |
| 9 | Well that I mean that t to get them in yeah that 's the sort of thing we started with erm playing pool and er table tennis and that . |
| 10 | Just the sort of thing he avoided on his television at home . |
| 11 | The Bluffer 's Guide to Islam — that was the kind of thing he needed . |
| 12 | If this is the type of thing you had in mind I shall obtain an estimate from him . |
| 13 | You see the thing is you see I mean wh wh when this law came out , LAUTRO and all that business came out that , and best advice and all this sort of thing you had to go through all the finances and what people earned and all that sort of thing . |
| 14 | It was never the sort of thing you thought about when you were young , when you were — or thought you were — in love , and all the future shone with promise . |
| 15 | I did nothing about it because at 17 it was n't really the sort of thing you went to the doctor about . |
| 16 | It 's always the same with enchanted castles , ’ said Snodgrass , as if , thought Fenella , only vaguely listening , enchantments were the sort of thing you met up with every day . |
| 17 | Is that the kind of thing you meant ? |
| 18 | What was the first kind of thing you got involved in ? |
| 19 | Peter and Jay played the sort of music he disliked even more than he disliked rock , the kind of thing you associated with canned tunes in restaurants and supermarkets : ‘ La Vie en Rose ’ and ‘ Never on Sunday ’ and ‘ Un Homme et une Femme ’ . |
| 20 | It 's the kind of thing you liked doing when you were here . |
| 21 | So in effect , if you write this long , long , rambling press release , you wo n't get over the point you were trying to do , you 'll get publicity okay , but you wo n't get the kind of thing you wanted . |
| 22 | It was not the sort of thing you did in polite company . |
| 23 | It was certainly not the sort of thing you did at the BBC . |
| 24 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 25 | So my said , Ooh you know what if it does n't you you know you 'd have none for next term sort of thing I said well I 've got quite a few for next term still . |
| 26 | Yeah but he had n't registered , that 's what cos I said to well I do n't really know this sort of thing I said , said here , that 's first I knew . |
| 27 | Street , I said is that , is that alright , you know sort of thing I said would I , she said yes she said it does , she said it , it runs the same route as the five , two , seven , but it runs early then it becomes five , two , seven , the five , two , ones still on , like a two seven and a two one , two seven , two one and there were |
| 28 | MORE tea , vicar ? is not the sort of thing I expected to ask minutes after arriving in a Swiss ski resort . |
| 29 | And I was only doing up here but er , that 's good enough , sort of thing I kissed her on the lips a couple |
| 30 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |