Example sentences of "thing [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's that 's one of the things I I I ke , I 've kept all my New Scientists . |
| 2 | Erm oh there were a thousand and one things I I ca n't really erm you know they they were always they were at it hammer and tongs you know they had er s what would be called something similar to a steam hammer and you know . |
| 3 | One of the things I I I found it very difficult to start with I must admit is that to prejudge that people would or would not go in . |
| 4 | Erm the three things I I er got most out of yesterday were the structured thought patterns , playback and the audience contact . |
| 5 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 6 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 7 | In sense-perception we have a conscious awareness of material things around us , such as trees and stones , things which we can later represent to ourselves in memory and imagination . |
| 8 | We have seen that Locke agrees that some things which we know , such as that all numbers are even or odd , could not be learnt directly from experience , and that he explains that he never meant otherwise , for what experience gives us is not knowledge itself , but its materials in the form of ideas . |
| 9 | These views concern the fact that the singular particular things which we can point to and pick out with the words ‘ this ’ and ‘ that ’ , and to which we often give names , such as ‘ James ’ or ‘ John ’ , are not thought of as being merely particular . |
| 10 | Business people are trying to provide these things which we want . |
| 11 | Things which we do not have the mind structure and therefore the relevant sense of mental meaning , to understand ? |
| 12 | When we are not sure , it is time to make sure — to see if the things which we believe are in fact true . |
| 13 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 14 | A child acquires our concept of red through being trained to react as the rest of us do to certain things ( things which we can specify only by using the language in question [ cf. 432 ] ) . |
| 15 | For instance , the experimental psychologists Premack and Rumbaugh have asked whether chimps can perceive the world as humans can , and do things which we can do . |
| 16 | We have felt obliged to play up those special things which we alone do and to keep quiet about those which we hold in common . |
| 17 | Genetic make-up , early childhood socialisation , class divisions and inequalities of opportunity are things which we either do not know how to change , or would involve a degree of social and economic transformation which is very unlikely to be embarked on in the name of reducing crime . |
| 18 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 19 | The attitudes expressed by value statements are all ways of favouring or disfavouring things which we would like to see shared . |
| 20 | Text for today : We shall undo those things which we ought not to have done , and there is health in us . |
| 21 | Things which we take for granted as routine in the U.K. one can not in Spain . |
| 22 | These are things which we already have , and to write about them can only be a celebration of past triumphs , an exercise in quasi-historical complacency : " how the battle for democracy was won " . |
| 23 | We can divide the components of sea water into three erm categories firstly those things which we can consider to be major constituents these are substances which are present are concentrations greater than one part per million . |
| 24 | Wittgenstein ( 1968 , pp. 31–32 ) , exploring the philosophy of language , posed the question of what was common to all the things which we call ‘ games ’ : |
| 25 | It 'll be necessary for all of us to go back and look at those very very carefully and to think to what extent they address the kinds of problems that we can actually see developing , the kinds of things which we are fighting our way away from in the statutory services and yet might find that they are growing in an uncontrolled way in the development of the private sector . |
| 26 | Okay Sally-Ann , have you had a chance to look at some of the things which we 're gon na do today as well ? |
| 27 | Now this is where I think the Japanese score dramatically , they spend many many hours defining things which we say it 's not worth the effort to define . |
| 28 | Now why I mean do you think it matters that these things are so that these things are so , that these things which we thought were in , you know private to you , and not available to other people so easily , why do you think it matters that they actually are apparently in return for mo payment , are available to anyone ? |
| 29 | and of the country at the things which we heard during that trial . |
| 30 | The tensions of racism and fascism are rising in Europe — all the things which we resolutely moved armies to defeat in the past . |