Example sentences of "[prep] thing [subord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | when it get 's up well who knows , sort of thing once it gets up to temperature |
| 2 | Electronic project construction is probably less troubled by this type of thing than many others , perhaps due to the fact that it is an indoor pursuit which is not dependent on the weather . |
| 3 | ‘ Basically , the thing that went down between Jon and me was more of a band kind of thing than anything really personal . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've had more experience with this sort of thing than anybody else . |
| 5 | I 'm sure he could , especially if he were an expert at determining the causes of aircraft lost through explosions — those people are much better at that sort of thing than the Navy is . |
| 6 | But they were less inclined to tolerate this kind of thing than they used to be . |
| 7 | You know more about this kind of thing than I do . |
| 8 | Computers are a bit faster at this kind of thing than monkeys , but the difference really is n't significant . |
| 9 | brother sort of sister thing sort of thing than anything else . |
| 10 | On the cluster erm not having in fact had any erm work on this type of thing before I did n't realise that holding a paper could close you down and in fact without moving my feet I was n't getting movement I was just static and with no use of the hands you were to express yourself sufficiently . |
| 11 | Yeah , we can get started on that anyway , sort of thing before we Erm should the house go up in smoke , Theresa across the road run to her |
| 12 | Are there any naked nuns in the film ? ’ — with cool , defiant charm , while George Harrison , who 'd been doing this sort of thing since his Beatle days , kept the whole thing on an even keel with his Liverpudlian wit and wisdom . |
| 13 | I privately made up my mind to do away with that sort of thing when we took over ; such things should not be allowed . |
| 14 | He 's the best striker I 've ever worked with , I just wished he could do that sort of thing when he played for England . |
| 15 | ‘ Used to do this sort of thing when I was a boy , ’ he said . |
| 16 | She appeared to be trying to out-stare me , but actually I 'm rather good at that sort of thing when I want to be , and I did n't let my eyes flicker . |
| 17 | Yes I think that 's the sort of thing when you 're a defender the goalkeeper s the goalkeeper 's almost on it but if you 're not sure you get rid of the thing and then say turn round to the keeper sorry pall but I 'm playing safe . |
| 18 | It was OK for her to do this kind of thing when in a mediumistic trance , but this was n't quite that , was it ? |
| 19 | We talk later on , sort of thing when I say do nothing , you 're going to do something in that bit , but as far as you 're concerned it 's idle time . |
| 20 | It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please . |
| 21 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 22 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 23 | You can hear the same sort of thing if you walk through a riding-stable when the horses are being fed . |
| 24 | You can not do that sort of thing if you 're a priest . ’ |
| 25 | You 'll have to get used to this sort of thing if you 're going to be a pop star . |
| 26 | Otherwise if erm if you desperately need us sort of thing if you ring the vicarage and then you can erm Alison or somebody will probably be in and come round for |
| 27 | I mean that 's the sort of thing if the press decides that somebody 's not a good thing , then that person is not a good thing and almost nothing he or she can do can change it . |
| 28 | But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two . |
| 29 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 30 | This is basically the same sort of thing as the filled legs on a horse that has stood in . |