Example sentences of "[vb base] things that [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean things that are outside the laws of nature — supernatural things ? ’ asked Holmes . |
| 2 | these were extraordinary occurrences , they were n't you know things that were daily available . |
| 3 | It 's inside my head , Ruth thought ; I 'm such a coward , I hear things that are n't there . |
| 4 | Then I have a bath , stick some stuff in from ‘ Nectar ’ ( we have n't got a Body Shop around here , but I never use things that are tested on animals , and even my hairspray is ozone-friendly ) , and lie back and indulge myself . |
| 5 | We both love things that are a bit off the wall , and we love pure pop . ’ |
| 6 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 7 | I think that if you concentrate on really short term goals and practise things that are maybe a week away instead of a month away then you 'll gradually , slowly but surely , definitely improve . |
| 8 | Now this is important because another criticism th th that Darwin 's critics made was , hey look , sometimes people inherit things that 're very bad for them . |
| 9 | I see things that are n't there . |
| 10 | And I 'm scared of the light when it comes because I see things that are , like my face getting old . |