Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to talk of other things than murder and violence but there were too many reminders . |
| 2 | We agreed to these conditions , and tried to think of salacious things for Ted to tell Jean . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I tend to listen to odd things they do but not in any depth . |
| 7 | Women tend to talk about real things , whereas Nigel and I like to sit in a restaurant retelling old stories . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was usually supposed that teaching should follow the order of discovery , for then the student is made to begin with familiar things . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I began to think of other things . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Okay , we can agree what I have said so far but then I 'm going to have to look at other things once I 've made further changes . |
| 18 | I have suffered cut fingers while being attacked when trying to see to different things in the tank . |
| 19 | When you saw that happening you realised you had to go into other things . |
| 20 | For observers who find the pace of the SCAN analysis too demanding , or who wish to concentrate on other things , the coarse observation kit uses checklists which the observer fills in at the end of each short teaching episode . |
| 21 | He likes to deal in physical things — things he can touch . " |
| 22 | Mrs Jean Ralph of Bodmin , Cornwall , wrote to ask among other things the difference between single and double jacquard . |
| 23 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 24 | You have to rely on other things , other people . |
| 25 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |