Example sentences of "the [adj] things that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's into fun and games in bed , all the horny things that I get off on like spankings and Polaroid pictures . |
| 2 | The principles he acts upon are not adopted because of his social position or natural endowments , or in view of the particular kind of society in which he lives or the specific things that he happens to want . |
| 3 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 4 | Let's be honest , I did n't wan na see good sections , I wan na see strong sections , I wan na see vibrant sections , but I also want to see the truth in those documents when it comes back afterwards , so I 'm disappointed on this issue and er I hope something in future will be done about to report the real things that we discussed at conference as well . |
| 5 | He goes out for about an hour on a Saturday if I , if he 's forced out I said , out oh get out please yeah they 're not the ideal things that they should be wearing , but , like because the |
| 6 | The charm of this series will be the little things that they have got precisely right , like the way they shout out the answers on blockbusters or coyly ask about women they adore . |
| 7 | It 's the little things that you do , the work that you put in , that makes the difference to your success . |
| 8 | This is high-minded and perhaps romantic , but so is the opposition : so are the large things that they want , like freedom and justice . |
| 9 | And and that was one of the prime things that I asked |
| 10 | But it really did n't affect a lot of the traditional things that we were doing in knitwear . |
| 11 | He was also expanding his social thought in general considerations on how ‘ the word ‘ civilisation ’ comes to mean more and more : because it means all the things that we have gained , and want to keep and also all the good things that we have lost , and want to regain' . |
| 12 | We congratulate him on spelling out the good things that we shall be offering . |
| 13 | In taking up on green and environmental issues , it will give the G M B a much higher profile , and make non-members and the general public alike more aware of the good things that we are striving for on their behalf . |
| 14 | And I 'm sure that when we go down the road we can Although i we 're always ready to look at erm car drivers and some of the stupid things they do and some of the stupid things that they do which annoy us , at the end of the day w you 've still got to bear in mind that erm there are people in our own fraternity , as it were , that er do n't do as they should . |
| 15 | It 's like the stupid things that I tried to do once myself with that great pope of Velasquez . |
| 16 | I think those are the those are the key things that we want to put across really . |
| 17 | I think probably one of the key things that I would want to get over to you is that we , we do n't actually hear from you enough . |
| 18 | The slimy things that they are . |
| 19 | Conference , to have a sign in the front and rear of your car may help all new drivers to understand that as a new driver you are entering a system that we are not aware of , speed , which is associated with many other items causes the very things that we work in our day-to-day lives under health and safety to stop . |
| 20 | ‘ Established cinemas , theatres etc … exist in the police universe to repress the very things that It stands for . |
| 21 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 22 | It 's a pity that the general public do n't come into this chamber on , on a normal debate , about education , about children 's needs , about social services , the very things that I 've |
| 23 | I talked to them about adult things : the Duke of Wellington , and the important things that he was doing in London . |
| 24 | The dreadful things that he forecasts will not happen . |
| 25 | It is the evil things that we shall be fighting against — brute force , bad faith , injustice , oppression and persecution — and against them I am certain that the right will prevail . ’ |
| 26 | SERAFIN : Yes , you see , I have been attempting to identify and generalize the various things that we perceive as affecting or as constituting the quality of life . |
| 27 | I jus , I think that it is good to actually pin point you know , the various things that we are definitely moving |
| 28 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 29 | The only things that they do n't seem to worry too much about your having taken beforehand are alcohol and smoking , cigarettes . |
| 30 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |