Example sentences of "things that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I derive my enjoyment of food from its colour , texture and the combination on the plate when I eat ; so these are the things that I concentrate on when cooking for customers , ’ she explains . |
| 2 | There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering . |
| 3 | ‘ It did n't distress or alarm me in any way , certainly not as much as many other things that I have seen that have earned certificates ’ . |
| 4 | When David did things that I thought were stupid , or when he did n't turn up , or he 'd turn up ‘ high ’ , I told him I thought he was stupid . |
| 5 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 6 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 7 | I get to act out all the horrors and pressures of fame , and some of the things that I worry about in my own life are purged . |
| 8 | People think if you 're small , you 're there to be downtrodden , and they have a stack of prejudices about all the other things that I happen to be . |
| 9 | I was very impressed by the care and attention I received in labour and the concerned approach of the consultant and all the junior staff to things that I felt wrong with my first delivery . |
| 10 | He 's into fun and games in bed , all the horny things that I get off on like spankings and Polaroid pictures . |
| 11 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 12 | Having lived on my own for four years , I 've found ways of doing things that I like , on my own , without having to bother about anyone else , and now I 've met this man , it means shaking everything up . |
| 13 | ‘ I think all the things that I initially tried to recruit carers were n't successful — I went to talk to vicars and community centres and the job centre , and wherever — none of these provided me with … well one vicar provided me with somebody . |
| 14 | So I was the owner of an empty container in which were things that I have never seen nor wished to know about . |
| 15 | They see things that I miss and miss things that I see . |
| 16 | They see things that I miss and miss things that I see . |
| 17 | There are many things that I can do now , but could n't do as a young man , which contradicts the notion that in order to be a good instrumentalist you have to acquire a comprehensive technique i your teens . |
| 18 | ‘ Will you take me on the road here to see one or two things that I might like to see ? ’ |
| 19 | I do n't have to boast about things that I do well . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm really into the guitar playing , because that 's what I 'm about , but there are so many other things that I 'm capable of and so I want to get some of that out there , too . |
| 21 | In some ways that was the classic sound that I had with Whitesnake , but that sound was n't usable in later , more AOR versions of either that band or even other things that I 've done ; all you can say is that it was right for that particular music . |
| 22 | I love what I 'm doing for Revlon but there are two things that I do think about , one is becoming an actress and the other is going to university to study art history . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His marriage with the lovely Susy , designed to give him stability , peace and quiet — things that I believe James actually , despite occasional appearances to the contrary , cherishes — had broken up . |
| 25 | What are the five main things that I should do ( objectives ) ? |
| 26 | No-one wants to read about their chairman and the things that I 've read this week . |
| 27 | I have experienced this directly in researching this book and am deeply indebted to many new friends , in areas of science that would have remained foreign to me , for their time and patience in explaining things that I never knew and I hope that we all gained from the experience . |
| 28 | One of the first things that I noticed in my workplace was that there was an entrenched , hostile division between Black and white colleagues . |
| 29 | I spent a month at home with the children and I suddenly realized all the things that I was missing out on — watching the baby grow up , start to crawl , the first few words , things like that . |
| 30 | It left me free to do all kinds of other things that I wanted to do . |