Example sentences of "things [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home is a hazardous place , and not just if you are elderly , in fact more accidents happen to the young , who tend to rush about more and trip over things or fall down staircases . |
| 2 | You would not say that it was a part of anything around you — it does not attach itself to things or become a particular quality that they have . |
| 3 | I have to learn things or sign cards for fans . |
| 4 | All he did was ask Mr Fractor to explain things or tell him what he wanted to know . |
| 5 | Hither and thither rolled the famous car , disgorging Lady D , followed by Sir Bernard , like minor royalty to perform no very clear function other than to open things or attend functions and be recognized . |
| 6 | I 'm very careful never to admire things or enthuse about things . |
| 7 | This is the most satisfactory form of sublimation , of aim-inhibited love , where the energy is derived from sexuality , the instinct 's aim being deflected away from genital aims on to others such as doing good works , creating beautiful things or building up close friendships . |
| 8 | He was smiling at her , saying again , ‘ I thought I must be imagining things or seeing double , or , as I said , you were a twin . ’ |
| 9 | Laughing at things or sitting together round the table and my dad making jokes and … |
| 10 | For the materialist Richards meaning was to be explained as the use of words either to point to things or to evoke feelings — in terms of behaviour , in the last analysis . |
| 11 | They do n't think you are going to steal it , and they never tell your children off if they touch things or run in and out of the hanging displays . |
| 12 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 13 | What you mean is that we might bang into things or kick a detonator on the nose or something of the kind . |
| 14 | Looking at it realistically , I think I 'll either go back into the museum side of things or carry on with what I 'm doing now . |
| 15 | things or to find out whether you were capable of having children or not . |
| 16 | The children should be allowed to make things or play with the wood as they wish , but other materials may extend the possibility for experiment . |
| 17 | I like to draw and make things or play a musical instrument |
| 18 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 19 | This offer to transport us out of our own world , with all its problems , unfinished business , boredom and disappointment , into another world where we may escape these things or negotiate them vicariously , is perhaps the fundamental appeal of all narrative . |
| 20 | But where television-viewing is virtually unrestricted there is little time for reading , imaginative or realistic play , for making things or talking to parents . |
| 21 | It is no good writing about these things or sweeping them under the carpet . |
| 22 | Does she procrastinate , lose things or fail to hand work in to her teacher ? |
| 23 | And talk to our friends about our purchasing techniques and explain to christian people about why we purchase certain things or do n't purchase certain things . |
| 24 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 25 | On a local level it 's quite hard to distinguish ratings , but there is a certain folklore and sometimes it 's an information that comes out as to whether people to listen to things or do n't listen to things . |
| 26 | Er and it 's one of these things where thinking about y your average heterosexual bloke they may respond angrily but there 's a suspicion that maybe it 's because they 're feeling rather threatened underneath sort of thing . |
| 27 | I say and do things that shock me . ’ |
| 28 | There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others . |
| 29 | The Comet was listed after the damage had been done , and with the Prospect Inn it was necessary to itemise all the things that had not changed , since the superficial impression of change was predominant . |
| 30 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |