Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And also you said , you were going , you were taking the piss out of me about that thing I told you about something to do with Aaron erm |
| 2 | er for the time being and if you ask Dave about this thing you 've missed and also about what this business about erm cos he has explained it to me but I 'm not quite sure about it , this business of keeping a , a sort of l record of all the practicals for this term |
| 3 | I really excit exciting about this thing you know and I wan na I wan na share it with someone like |
| 4 | And for another thing it is extremely difficult to catch the tone of the master and almost impossible to create stories as imbued with life as his . |
| 5 | It 's all to do with marketing but then again it 's all to do with the reason for that is I suppose that 's what people want you know if they see a video er er if they watch a video on television and they listen to the song it has to add up you know , it ca n't just be a a story book of one thing and a song about another thing you know . |
| 6 | For some things you may find it difficult to see how to improve on them or you will not be able to think of suitable substitutes . |
| 7 | He wants to know regional dialects and stuff for this thing he 's taping . |
| 8 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 9 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 10 | ‘ If I ever catch our Jane on the back of that thing I 'll give you both barrels , ’ bawled Tiny over his shoulder . |
| 11 | ‘ There are a lot of exciting things we have got lined up which we were not going to launch until we launched Taurus , but we will come out with these products . |
| 12 | Mentioning the white chromosome reminds me of another thing I wanted to say , because erm another variant of this incorrect criticism that people made of Darwin about blending , and you still hear this today , and people should know better , especially the social sciences , is , oh , single genes can not influence behaviour . |
| 13 | It 's telling us how many sets of different things we 've got . |
| 14 | Yes , so they had did have a variety of different things you you could er be |
| 15 | I ca n't remember how you get there , I ca n't remember how cards is how many cards it is , but you get loads of cards , with with pictures of different things you have to kiss and it ranges from the hand at one point , navel six points , bottom seven , lips eight points , cheek three points , erm the chest fifteen points and there 's a fig leaf one fig leaf bud in there , fifteen points and you can kiss anything you like . |
| 16 | On the other hand , there 'll be a range of different things I could become committed to and do well . |
| 17 | I can think of some things we should have done earlier . |
| 18 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 19 | He opened the door to his hospital room , keeping one hand tightly clenched on the back of this thing they had given him to wear . |
| 20 | I hope it 's not full of this thing they 're sending it all back for ! |
| 21 | getting rid of this thing I 'm not having this . |
| 22 | Oh that Nanette phoned in and some of the country said what do you think of this thing he said . |
| 23 | The most sort of personal thing I suppose , erm , let the group open . |
| 24 | But he took no notice of either thing I had said , anyway , and laughed heartily at nothing evident about Sixth Avenue , and grabbed at my knee . |
| 25 | there 's only a few of these things we know , you know ? |
| 26 | Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us . |
| 27 | Well there 's an organization in Radford who can help out with both of these things they 're called A T O Training and they can tell you all you need to know about things like application forms and interview techniques as well as advice about further education and wan t what to do if you want to start your own business . |
| 28 | If they are offered three piece suites they should be suspicious and if they see any of these things they should report it to us . |
| 29 | You need to consider those antecedent events that prompt you to break a diet , and then think about which of these things you can avoid or change in some way . |
| 30 | Now when you 're out on site some of these things you have to do each week . |