Example sentences of "and the things [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also necessary to help people to see their own area from the visitor 's point of view , so they need an idea of the sort of customer they are likely to get and the things they will want to know . |
| 2 | He loved the ritual and the quiet sense of harmony between them as they walked along , and the things they talked about . |
| 3 | And the things they say yo you read them and you think , oh yes , that 's pretty awful ! |
| 4 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 5 | Connie held that it was a simple matter to forgive your enemies because , if you had the sense you were born with , you did n't see much of them , whereas with the way society was constituted , you spent most of your time with your nearest and dearest , and the things they could do to annoy you made the whole concept of forgiveness extremely difficult to entertain . |
| 6 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 7 | terms and the things they use . |
| 8 | I think adverts can create society , create the values and the things we want . |
| 9 | ‘ Think of all the people we shall meet , and the places we 'll go to , and the things we shall do ! we 've had some good times at Pinehurst , I know , but think of being free ! ’ |
| 10 | Gay , do you think that in time we shall forget our old selves , and the things we used to do ? ’ |
| 11 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 12 | At Virgin , over and above establishing more centralised management functions ‘ my role was to ensure we were informal but not casual , to the extent that Richard had a limited number of objectives we were committed to spending money on , based on a view of ; the company and the things we had to do well ’ , he said . |
| 13 | From this , we find that first impressions are extremely important ; physical appearance and the things we can first tell about a person are very important when developing that impression . |
| 14 | ‘ There are so many things we miss just the way we talked and the things we talked about in the NorthEast . ’ |
| 15 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |
| 16 | It 's funny how often my family were sarcastic about me and the things I was doing . |
| 17 | As we rode through the forest , Sapt told me everything that he could about my life , my family , my friends , and the things I liked or did not like . |
| 18 | and the things I did n't give him . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid of you , she would have liked to scream , I 'm afraid of you and me , and the things I feel when we 're too close together . |
| 20 | They may have asked you about your work , your leisure activities and the things you buy . |
| 21 | the things that could be better and the things you 'd like more or less of . |
| 22 | And the things you put into it . |
| 23 | and the things you 've got plenty on , and plus |
| 24 | Because of you and the things you said — you were the one who robbed me of my confidence . |
| 25 | So your ratios and the things you should be looking at , or the activity stuff is how many calls I 'm making , how many no 's do I get , and how much is each one of those no 's worth . |
| 26 | small and the things you first hear are the things you remember . |
| 27 | She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us . |
| 28 | Her reminiscences were a delight to Constance and the things she learned from her friend 's rambling monologues stayed with her for life . |
| 29 | By knowing more about her buying habits and the things she owns , we can fill in the picture . |