Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] things that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three things that we need to decide here today and that 's the purpose of these discussions . |
| 2 | Erm now the three two or three things that we 're talking about today really is , er and one we 've just got over I think , is that you and I er I 'm I 'm absolutely certain you 'd knock this into a cocked hat . |
| 3 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 4 | When you have finished , go back over the whole list and circle those four or five things that you would like to work on for yourself over the next week or so . |
| 5 | Do you remember when I said er as we were going through I said there were one or two things that you perhaps could help me with ? |
| 6 | anywhere near as if you were prepared , because if you were prepared there are bound to be one or two things that you would want to ask for , own by the standard of interpretation of whatever it is , or a particular word if it 's a language and so on , erm and that is something that er I think people erm come across as |
| 7 | ‘ Will you take me on the road here to see one or two things that I might like to see ? ’ |
| 8 | Mm , mm , I heard an interesting programme on Radio Shropshire which talked about the tailed bat , which brought out the historical importance of the building , and I learnt one or two things that I did n't know , apparently one of the very early carvings , who plays Sidney I think , and yet , yet it was n't er , destroyed until the next revolution took place . |
| 9 | And you do n't have to improve that by much , that 's what I 'm saying , you know , cutting down on your lunch time , do n't do it , but er , and I take the point that you , you made Jenny which is an excellent one , that here we are , we 've got this great swath of companies that , this great swath of companies , and the amount of time that we can actually spend er , doing cold calls or other things that we 'd like to do , er , is governed by something else . |
| 10 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 11 | ‘ So as many social programmes and educational things that you take away from the youth , the more and more you foster illiteracy , the more and more you foster disenfranchisement and the more dangerous the population becomes , you see ? |
| 12 | So the time for meals should be determined by when people get up , when they go to bed and other things that they want to do during the day . ’ |
| 13 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 14 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 15 | However , a discipline 's interest in this world , and any discipline will do as an example here , is not like the interest that any of us show in that world as a world in which we have to do , and know about , the quite ordinary and mundane things that we do . |