Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] [prep] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you must have heard the criticism for things like the pile of bricks , the pile of carpet felt . |
| 2 | Well I have n't included the advertising of things in that . |
| 3 | Not to want what could n't be had no doubt took the sting from things . |
| 4 | Kathleen had always seen the sense of things , once they were explained . |
| 5 | If you think of what you do on a holiday , it 's a totally different lifestyle to when you 're normally working and obviously people desire to have that sort of experience more and more , and you 've got the rise of things like short breaks . |
| 6 | You 've got the use of things like upon and , there was something or other else . |
| 7 | Instead , we should be asking how the diversity of body plans so evident in the Vendian and Cambrian affected the shape of things to come . |
| 8 | We have set the platform for things to move ahead . |
| 9 | Darlington 's Polam Hall School was runner-up with a talk entitled The Shape of Things to Come and student Nadine Bell was named best chairman . |
| 10 | ‘ He wrote a book entitled The Nature of Things , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ in which he described the planet Saturn as cold as ice , dark as night , and malignant as Satan . |