Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dressing room was charged with venom , jealousy , spite , and also total and undisciplined panic , which stemmed mainly from Stefan , who had been through most things with Gesner in the course of the various Seasons , but never anything like this ; never before an open confrontation between Gesner and the Direktor in the middle of a performance . |
| 2 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 3 | ‘ Come on , Aurora — we 're two adults , and , whether you like it or not , we 're in this thing together now . |
| 4 | Erm and he says there all things are in all things but each is coloured according to the host . |
| 5 | and the ones that had been cast out would be without that thing , so that 's why it 's gone in relation to that it 's because those that did n't have the faith that the army officer had would be cast out as the sons , of the sons of the kingdom , that 's why he mentioned it in likeness |
| 6 | So I 'm gon na get I 'm gon na be at that thing by about seven o'clock if I get on the train by I doubt I very much doubt it I 'm getting the train . |
| 7 | Just a little point of interest , how many people are on this thing nowadays ? |
| 8 | Matthew stumbled a bit on this question , trying to remember what the prevailing feminist attitudes were towards such things as parenting and families . |
| 9 | I think you can stand to correct me , but the problem being with these things , that they 're so |
| 10 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that this Morris fellow and my brother were in this thing together ? ’ he said softly . |
| 11 | They were among many things that disappeared after I left Cairo in 1953 , not knowing that I should not return . |
| 12 | How clever I am at these things . |
| 13 | You know how Dad is about these things . |
| 14 | It 's for that thing . |
| 15 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 16 | Over in the dance and the world-music scenes , the fashion is for all things Brazilian . |
| 17 | Now on one occasion , as I say this is a conglomerate this is of several things put together , but one happened rather like this . |
| 18 | If this seem an over-long prologue , think how little discussion there is of these things . |
| 19 | There 's a fellow called Peter Fallon who 's behind this thing . |
| 20 | To the Sufi the divine is in all things and manifested to the seer , and it is this divine attribute that he sees and which is transferred to the work of the poet and the mystic ; and that work is authentic in so far as it depicts faithfully the himma or emotional part of the event . |
| 21 | God 's hand is in all things . |
| 22 | As well and so that that get 's over whether they you know that get 's over this thing about erm views of other people j the way you |
| 23 | ( It had surprised me to find how fussy he was about some things ; dust , and scrappy meals really bothered him . ) |
| 24 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 25 | I was above such things . |
| 26 | Miss Danziger also had it in her favour that she was in all things the opposite of Bo-Bo . |
| 27 | She was an enterprising cook , as she was in all things , and fed her family well . |
| 28 | The binder twine was in this thing you see and it went |
| 29 | This was exactly what she had been afraid of — flibbertigibbet though she was in most things , Candy could be positively terrier-like if she got her teeth into a mystery , refusing to let go until she 'd solved everything to her satisfaction . |
| 30 | Her Majesty , although in most respects quite alive to the progressive spirit of the age , was in some things inclined to be curiously conservative , and particularly so with regard to her personal surroundings . |