Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conditions of use to which all users are required to agree insist among other things that users should not attempt to identify particular individuals or households , that the data should only be used for academic purposes , and that any publications which make extensive use of the data should acknowledge this . |
| 2 | He has pulled down princes from their thrones and exalted the lowly The hungry he has filled with good things , the rich sent empty away . |
| 3 | They tried to talk of other things than murder and violence but there were too many reminders . |
| 4 | We agreed to these conditions , and tried to think of salacious things for Ted to tell Jean . |
| 5 | I tried to think of nice things ; then , when I could n't think of any , I determined to concentrate on what was happening around me . |
| 6 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 7 | He felt he was going to climax early and desperately tried to think of other things to take his mind off it in order to last until she was ready . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the director of the RSC production , Phyllida Lloyd , has tried to ginger things up ( where they do not need gingering ) with a number of anachronistic touches — a Victorian costume here , a modern uniform there , saxophones , neon lights , and so on . |
| 9 | ‘ I tend to listen to odd things they do but not in any depth . |
| 10 | Women tend to talk about real things , whereas Nigel and I like to sit in a restaurant retelling old stories . |
| 11 | Erm been tending to concentrate on specific things which you know stand a good chance of being on the paper , and even if they 're not will help you with others . |
| 12 | It was usually supposed that teaching should follow the order of discovery , for then the student is made to begin with familiar things . |
| 13 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 14 | So again we 're going to come back to several themes in a fairly repetitive way , and we — do n't forgive us for this if you do n't like it , but we 're certainly going to talk about certain things again and again and again , but what it really comes down to , is ‘ Learn what the media 's all about , learn what they want , learn what you can provide , see whether you can match this , in a sense , and see whether you can make it work to your advantage ’ . |
| 15 | Those who advise students say the pressures on those who seem destined for great things is enormous . |
| 16 | This is one of the great fascinations of being involved with living things , of discovering that the more one gets to know about natural things , the more there is still to find out . |
| 17 | THE INSPIRALS admit that they , in Clint 's words , ‘ Get niggled by little things ’ on the road , but they 're as likely to go into a discussion about the virtues of meat pies in Dallas as opposed to Houston , as they are to have an out-and-out fight . |
| 18 | I began to think of other things . |
| 19 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 20 | I 'm starting to write about other things , but I 'm being careful about writing political things 'cos it 's really easy to sound preachy or too self-righteous in a song . |
| 21 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 22 | With respect to the first point , none of the activity-no instances- can be identified with ordinary perception , plain seeing , which consists in activity in a plainer sense , having to do with ordinary things . |
| 23 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 24 | Letting go of secure things is always difficult . |
| 25 | Sometimes it was jolly nice , sometimes it was a bit fraught , and sometimes I had to remind myself not to start thinking of other things in the middle . |
| 26 | So it would 've led to other things as well . |
| 27 | If the necessity for the agreement is overlooked then so will be the necessity of the child 's having been trained to react to certain things in a certain way for it to mean anything by ‘ It is red ’ . |
| 28 | He just pu , he just kept putting off important things as well . |
| 29 | Me : I could eat anything , but I keep thinking of nice things . |
| 30 | It would probably be a great relief to him to be able to stop worrying about his constituency and start worrying about other things . |