Example sentences of "thing i [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 2 | The ‘ things I expected to value ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Nikos , ‘ that 's one of the things I had in mind . ’ |
| 4 | One of the things I remember about Michael was him waiting to make his entrance each night . |
| 5 | ‘ My father bought the estate before the war for the milk , not ever intending to go there , but then when the war came we lived there , from about 1942 when I was four and the first things I remember in life were from there . ’ |
| 6 | Who said : ‘ I am deeply sorry for the unkind things I said about Liverpool . |
| 7 | When I was in hospital , one of the things I said to Terry was : ‘ If they want my breast , I 'm gon na ask for it back in a jar ! ’ |
| 8 | Le Queux reached the height of his popularity in the 1920s , during which he wrote on Landru , the multiple murderer in France , Rasputin , the sinister influence at the court of the tsar of Russia , and a number of other books including Things I Know about Kings , Celebrities and Crooks ( 1923 ) , Hidden Hands ( 1925 ) , Blackmailed ( 1927 ) , and The Chameleon ( 1927 ) . |
| 9 | These are the things I expect in marriage |
| 10 | ‘ When people laugh at the things I say on stage , they 're laughing with me , not at me , ’ she explained . |
| 11 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 12 | ‘ But I really do n't think your voodoo can give me all the things I want in life . ’ |
| 13 | It would be impossible here to go into all the things I learned in therapy . |
| 14 | There are other things I have in mind right now . ’ |
| 15 | 10 things I love about Britain DANNII YOU AND YOUR HEALTH Are you allergic to summer ? |
| 16 | 10 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BRITAIN by DANNII MINOGUE |
| 17 | The things I do for people . |
| 18 | — unspeakable things I did at night |
| 19 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 20 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 21 | Now interesting because erm one of the things I did before Christmas was I went out to and it I think it 's my memory it 's sixty percent of Scotland is , is , gets its power from nuclear power |
| 22 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , one thing I know about Mr Coffin is that he was born in the early nineteen-twenties . |
| 24 | One thing I had in common with Nigel was our National Health hearing aid . |
| 25 | Well this is another thing I raised with Keith that I |
| 26 | Very good , very , very good , no I think as I say the only thing I said to Mr I told him that I 'm very upset because I 've always been treated ever so fair by him I mean they 've really been good to us , you ca n't say they 're not , I mean no other Council I do n't think is as good as Harlow Council , well I say that because I know by my friends who live away they 're not er , they do n't get half the benefits that they get here , I mean we are looked after are n't we ? |
| 27 | Another thing I said to Caliban the other day — we were listening to jazz — I said , do n't you dig this ? and he said , in the garden . |
| 28 | But driver safety was far from being Jackie 's only hobby horse and the first thing I noticed about Jackie — and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me to say so — was his incredible garrulity . |
| 29 | ‘ One thing I learnt in England : public opinion , the sum of private opinions , does matter , can matter often for good . ’ |
| 30 | I think the other thing I dislike as pressure is to be with people and to , to be happy when actually , lots of time , I would rather just be on my own ! |