Example sentences of "of things [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are pressures building up for me to do all sorts of things but I do n't want to accept them , ’ she says confidently , her blue eyes filled with a new purpose . |
| 2 | He does n't tell us anything about that side of things but I ca n't imagine him ever finishing with someone . |
| 3 | Very minor on the scale of things but I 've had a car stolen , erm great inconvenience , ca n't believe its going to happen to you , did n't do any thing to have caused this , locked up and took all the precautions , and yet it still happened and some one , some where out there has my car . |
| 4 | Erm I 'm influenced by all kinds of things but I 'm sure I 'm not influenced by wishing for certain power or not . |
| 5 | There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering . |
| 6 | I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for . |
| 7 | particularly erm , and one of things that I did find in Gaugin 's painting of Von Gogh was that erm , er , erm , depression really , I , I could see it there and the des desolation very much as if he was looking in on somebody who was in that position er , although at the time I do n't thing Gaugin and , er Von Gogh himself knew it |
| 8 | Basically I I 've got a l a l a whole list of things that I did n't get done this week either . |
| 9 | But he was alright you know what I mean with the , I never never really knew want , there were lots of things that I wanted and never got of course but I never really , I could never say I wanted , and I never went hungry , not even at any time , you know . |
| 10 | You always taught me that I had so much to be thankful for , but there are still a lot of things that I wish had never happened . |
| 11 | Well this morning I dropped in my briefcase there , copies of things that I printed out , all lovely . |
| 12 | And I need the money to finance my , my climbing , and other kind of things that I do . |
| 13 | ‘ It reminds me of things that I need to forget , ’ she said defensively . |
| 14 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 15 | Now before you go racing ahead there 's a couple of things that I need to tell you , so can I show you how to do the first one , and then you can race on with it . |
| 16 | It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about , |
| 17 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |
| 18 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 19 | Suddenly I realised that there were all sorts of things that I wanted to do that I had n't done . |
| 20 | You could say , well thank you for doing that , erm , there are a couple of things that I 'm not happy with , and then put the praise on the end . |
| 21 | Of course , I 've I 've left him in the charge of of not I have n't asked Paul to take him under his wing over the weekend , but I 've left Neil a list of things that I would like done . |
| 22 | More like the sort of things that I wear in trousers . |
| 23 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 24 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 25 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 26 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 27 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 28 | something I 've realized recently is that because I 've sort of , in a sense the C S M T side of things that I , because that 's a big area for me , I tend to think county wide about everything |
| 29 | He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like . |
| 30 | erm I mean a few of things that I would say , first of all we operate on a freephone system , also we turn claims cheques round the same day , and the name of the game as far as we 're concerned is service . |