Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( Despite what they may say , everyone DOES believe in invisible things — no one doubts the existence of wind , electricity , love or toothache , even though no one has ever seen any of those things ! ) |
| 5 | He likes to deal in physical things — things he can touch . " |
| 6 | Erm , usually um action is prompted by well it 's prompted by various things . |