Example sentences of "[prep] thing [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's fuckin' weird , the sort of thing he 's into . |
| 2 | ‘ You know bloody well what sort of thing he 's likely to be referring to , Jim . ’ |
| 3 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |
| 4 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 5 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 6 | Yeah but I mean that 's , that 's not the thing cos that 's not the sort of thing it is actually for though . |
| 7 | If you take a facial expression anyone of the seven dwarfs and you want to try and give a dramatic idea how to present that face or that attitude to do it just by standing there without curtains opening on you and all that sort of thing it 's quite diffi , it 's quite difficult ! |
| 8 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
| 9 | ‘ Boring as hell , but still — if you 're interested in that kind of thing it 's all right I suppose . ’ |
| 10 | Aye but well it 's the right size sort of thing it 's , but it 's er to double up with the picture you ca n't do it . |
| 11 | Oh she said it 's silly making him do that I said er very quickly I said , I said do n't get me wrong I said for kids who enjoy going to that sort of thing it 's great and fine if it 's alright |
| 12 | She showed us one , she had a Christmas tree and she had er star and tha that was the same kind of thing it 's sort of |
| 13 | You go for these people and ask for a board and this sort of thing it 's just , it just gets to be demeaning , the practice manager should have , should have |