Example sentences of "thing [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 2 | Because Mrs like erm sort of assumes herself to be really fashionable by the things that like up with the fashions or anything and then Mr self important stories of the War . |
| 3 | Also had further letter from Notts County Council about Nottinghamshire Minerals local plan , asking us again if we have any representations to make , I think it was decided at a previous meeting that we did not , erm Colin Williamson , production of development and planning at Newton and Sherwood District Council , it 's proposal to run seminars for Parish Councils on planning policies , law and procedures , and we would like to know erm whether erm we would be interested in attending , and how many people would wish , he he has earmarked temporarily twenty eighth of March , which is a Monday , as a possible date at town hall , so if er if you think that would be something that you would be erm interested in going to , the topics erm are really I think things that came up at the Parish Council 's conference , the questions about planning , about the rules , and the policies , and the procedures etcetera , the erm , and visitors were talking last thing for sixth of December for five minutes , and the discussion for half an hour to three quarters , commencing at half past seven , so er if anyone 's interested in attending that ? |
| 4 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 5 | I 'd never find out about a lot of things that go on at the hotel without him around . |
| 6 | I saw big things that grew out of the ground . |
| 7 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 8 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 9 | Erm we owned a little and just thought I 'd ask the party see how many things that cropped up as a result |
| 10 | But I think we 've got to remember that the , the people who really determine the quality of the users of our services , the clients , it 's they who say yes , this is what I want , this is th this is what I 'm after and that is why I hope that we will be able to target on things that come out of the consultation progress s process , things like evening and weekend working that people want and , rather than simply churning out more nine to five Monday to Friday day care , what people want is it targeted to their needs where they are and it 's that sort of quality that I think is so important . |
| 11 | Well I think people think that a certain amount of time and attention has to be devoted to the Party 's constitution , and there are two things that arose out of the conference in Brighton . |
| 12 | And that is exactly how they look — like things that jump out of the dark and land without a body feeling them and burrow into living flesh , flesh they have numbed with preliminary injections , and … suck . |
| 13 | One of the other things that leads off from a job analysis by finding out exactly what a person 's supposed to do is that you can start doing things like a personal training log , cashiers , cash sell this is a word this is real life example . |
| 14 | She picked her way over the scattered things and went on to the balcony . |
| 15 | After an hour the sun clouded over , so they picked up their things and started back towards the fence where they had left their bicycles . |
| 16 | ‘ He just could be Ángel 's father , ’ he added , gathering up his things and starting back down the slope , scree-walking very fast over the first long patch of loose grey stones , swinging his pack , and the empty sleeve flapping against his hip . |
| 17 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 18 | No , but I 've read erm that one about that thing that comes up out the ground it was so creepy , it was really creepy . |
| 19 | That 's the big fat thing that sticks out at the side down there . |
| 20 | Masklin grabbed the Thing and took off across the polished surface . |