Example sentences of "[prep] thing [pers pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , and if they do that sort of thing they can charge the earth for it |
| 2 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 3 | Publisher Hugh Murray graphically illustrates the sort of thing you can still expect when you arrive home and take refuge behind the walls . |
| 4 | When journalists resort to this sort of thing you can be sure that the facts are drab in the extreme , and believe me , they do n't come much drabber than our Bargain Weekend Break at the Elan Valley Lodge . |
| 5 | It 's not the sort of thing you can dash off in a couple of months . |
| 6 | That 's the kind of thing you can use as proof of ownership . |
| 7 | You know that sort of thing you can |
| 8 | It 's not the sort of thing you can take with you . |
| 9 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |
| 10 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 11 | I 'll look in my ro so that sort of thing she can look at in the morning . |