Example sentences of "[det] things [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few things while we wait for a report of some description ( hint hint ; - ) |
| 2 | ‘ Just a few things before we start out . |
| 3 | So let me just say a few things before he does arrive , and catch his breath and perhaps have a cup of tea , on , on a topic which we , it 's not fully listed but I think is worth just mentioning , and that is writing for the press , because it may occur to you and in fact you may yourself on occasions , write things for the press . |
| 4 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 5 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 6 | Look , I 've brought you some things so you can have a cuppa on me . |
| 7 | I 've left out and altered some things because they were n't right for a court report . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure you know more about such things than I do , ’ she replied , amazed that she could sound so calm . |
| 9 | It certainly has characteristics of both , which are evident in such things as its folk music tradition . |
| 10 | In early societies relationships between people are governed by such things as their gender , their age , and their family relationships ( these Maine called status relations ) , while in more advanced societies they are governed by contractual arrangements which are not concerned with the status of those involved , but only with the matter which brings the individuals together . |
| 11 | Usually when you wonder what makes people tick you speculate about such things as their motives , attitudes and feelings . |
| 12 | They can then go on to order him to do such things as they consider necessary to effect the abatement . |
| 13 | You can not wear today 's dress over such things as you 'ave on ! ’ |
| 14 | And this filled the perverse daughter with a great desire to go even a little way into the wild wood , where there were no plates and no stitching , but might well be a need of such things as she knew she had it in herself to perform . |
| 15 | Dear old Martha had much of the milk of human kindness about her ; she had pensioners who shared with her such things as she had : one was a lame robin redbreast , who came and sat on a bush opposite the door till he was fed ; another was a pigeon whose cot was quite a mile away : she too looked for a meal on every visit , and after gathering her crop-full , would wing her flight over the fields and houses home to her cot . |
| 16 | I 'd never , never have said such things if you were dead . ’ |
| 17 | We might say it is galling for people to hear such things when they have been told they will die in the wilderness , but at least the promises of God remain very much in force for their children . |
| 18 | ‘ How can you say such things when your own wife , by your own admission , is screwed by every man in sight … ? ’ |
| 19 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 20 | Well then mother knows more about these things than we do . |
| 21 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 22 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 23 | You know more about these things than I do . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The church has huge amounts of money and is far better-placed to fund these things than us , ’ he claimed . |
| 25 | You 're gon na show me these things before you get Kath to print them are n't you ? |
| 26 | ‘ We just do n't think it is helpful to talk about a lot of these things while we are in this process , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It 's no it 's crap erm Petie Peter Peter Are we supposed to talk about these things while we 've got them on because I do . |
| 28 | Given this topic framework , J is constrained from talking about these things unless he introduces into the topic framework some additional information which he could then treat as shared by his hearer-that one of his brothers had gone to Australia to train as a brain surgeon and he considered doing the same , but settled for bricklaying instead . |
| 29 | these things unless you tell them |
| 30 | Now , we do these things after we 're saved , they get us saved , we do them after we 've saved as a confession that we are trusting Jesus Christ as our saviour . |