Example sentences of "thing have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For gradually over thousands of years , the Mother Goddess who gave birth to all things had lost her power as people realized that men had a role in procreation . |
| 2 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 3 | Well , by the time things had sorted themselves out , Johnny Miller was nearest to us and we were paired with him . |
| 4 | She had run from the hotel , snapping off shots blindly ; but the adrenalin in her body , the clarity of thought , the way her subconscious had controlled her actions , all of these things had sharpened her shooting to perfection … |
| 5 | All her life things had happened which she had not arranged . |
| 6 | Hayley I tell you what , have a word with my mother because my mother 's done it for years , always taken tablets , and I reckon this is half her problem now cos she 's got to her old age she 's on the change , and these things have affected her throughout her life now . |
| 7 | Spink , who has been first choice since regaining the No 1 spot from Les Sealey in March , said : ‘ There was a time when my future seemed in jeopardy but things have turned my way again . ’ |
| 8 | Where , why might it be that if , if we 're actually talking about this mutation and things have changed it ? |
| 9 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 10 | It 's funny how these things have got their origin , is n't it ? |
| 11 | Things have changed , things have improved you see . |
| 12 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 13 | I used to stick the rein , there was a little tiny , the thing has gone what 's on side of the cart , a little hook on the side of the cart , where I used to hook the reins on and she 'd just come home herself with me on top . |
| 14 | The whole thing has surpassed my greatest expectations . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ As time has gone on , the whole thing has got him more and more down , so this is a great relief and a huge weight off his shoulders . |
| 16 | The whole thing has left me bitter — and tough . ’ |
| 17 | It was one thing to have turned his own country into an ‘ underdeveloping ’ society , but to seek out the company of the other basket-cases of the world economy was to add gratuitous insult to already grave injury in the minds of most Romanians . |
| 18 | But I mean that 's a terrifying thing to have found him in |
| 19 | around about it , like whether we liked it or not , whether he was , it was a good thing to have had it , we should have been better not to have had it with the situation at the time , you know , that kind of mulling over might be |
| 20 | The Thing had said there were ways of growing plants under lights the same colour as the sun , in pots full of a sort of weak soup that helped plants grow . |
| 21 | When Maureen went to investigate , she discovered that the poor thing had lost its left wing . |
| 22 | It seemed , too , that the fusion thing had run its course and become fuzak , which made for too easy listening . |
| 23 | Yes oh yes , she 'd got Lucy in bed , made love — had sex ? — fucked with ? — there was n't really a phrase to fit how utterly strange the whole thing had made her feel . |
| 24 | But one thing had caught her attention . |
| 25 | Bloody thing 's blown everything in creation ! |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 27 | But Susan was saying she ca n't see how one thing 's got anything to do with the other , she did n't go joy riding |