Example sentences of "be thing [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're things that you do , they 're things that I do . |
| 2 | They 're things that you do , they 're things that I do . |
| 3 | He discovers that there really are things that nobody has ever done before . |
| 4 | He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort . |
| 5 | I , I 'm sorry to keep saying ‘ Yes ’ to everything that you 're , you 're suggesting , but yes , we are thinking about communication skills , particularly the encouraging and helping children to learn to write properly , I do n't mean calligraphy , I mean actually write and express themselves on paper , oral communication , and things of this kind are things that we do want to pay attention to . |
| 6 | On the other hand I would have ticked s erm location of services er and public and utility because th these are things that we need to know at the design stage . |
| 7 | it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least |
| 8 | Th these are things that we need to look at |
| 9 | I mean , you know there are things that we need to address in-house , to make sure that we give you er , an efficient service . |
| 10 | ‘ Alyssia , ’ he began , ‘ there are things that you do n't understand . |
| 11 | They are things that you do which actually improve your department both in the short and in the long-term . |
| 12 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 13 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 14 | There are things that I have thought to myself about these . |
| 15 | The drives we put on against New Zealand were things that we had worked on and it was very satisfying to see them coming off , not just for the forwards but for the backs as well . |
| 16 | There were things that we had no more control over yet than the grass did over the developer who chose to plough it all under and build a factory on top . |
| 17 | They were things that you took to blot out your life . |
| 18 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 19 | There were things that you knew , and there were things that you only thought you new ; and when something happened to shock you out of your ignorance , then the change in your perceptions could never be reversed . |
| 20 | There were things that you said that I only half understood ; things that startled me sometimes ; shocked me a bit , if you like . |
| 21 | There were things that I knew , but the programme brought it home more to me . |
| 22 | So I was the owner of an empty container in which were things that I have never seen nor wished to know about . |
| 23 | There 's things that I want to try that have n't been tried . ’ |
| 24 | No she does n't , it 's things that she 's known for years . |