Example sentences of "[prep] [art] thing i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 2 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 3 | I do n't know wen I 'll see you agen , but I 'm sorry for the things I did , and I 'm ashamd . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got nearly enough money for the things I want , and my brother , Robert , is a lord — Lord Burlesdon . |
| 5 | I 'm too old and too big for the things I like , and the others terrify me ! ’ |
| 6 | Hearing you apologise for the things I love most about you is more than I can stand ! ’ |
| 7 | Plain you pay for the thing I 'll pay for these go on . |
| 8 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 9 | Suddenly Cassie said : ‘ Johnny you must n't tell anyone ; not about us ; not about the things I 've said . ’ |
| 10 | When I 'm not happy every day , about the things I said today , she caught me being rude today , but I know , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh , she makes me laugh , makes me laugh , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh and to make me feel this bad , I love my mum , she 's the best mum in the world |
| 11 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 12 | I said oh I 'm not gon na give you my telephone number after the things I 've been hearing about you ! |
| 13 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 14 | That 's one of the things I 've done , actually . ’ |
| 15 | Raskolnikov is not with us either , but in the novel 's final text he could not have done or said any of the things I have just mentioned . |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
| 18 | I would say many of the things I 've said strike a chord in the hearts of ordinary people . |
| 19 | One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions . |
| 20 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 21 | One of the things I did n't like too much was the terrific hullabaloo the women made about menstruation , the way they would sit sighing in a corner and all the other women would make a fuss over them . |
| 22 | One of the things I feel about Throwing Muses music is that it 's visceral , sexual , but not sexy . |
| 23 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 24 | One of the things I most remember about 1971 was my favourite artist , Kenneth Noland , deciding that he wanted his annual income to pass through the million-dollar barrier . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps I could teach him some of the things I know instead ? ’ suggested the Bookman . |
| 26 | I 'm a bit turned off by some of the things I see . |
| 27 | That distinction , shockingly banal though it is , has been hard to shake from my mind , and its persistence is one of the things I want to explore in this article . |
| 28 | Some of the things I could n't see included Loch Lyon to the east with Ben Lawers beyond , Ben More to the south , Ben Lui to the south-west and lovely Glen Orchy to the west leading to Ben Cruachan . |
| 29 | Some of the things I could see were some sheep droppings , a stone or two , my rucksack and an aluminium ring pull from someone 's can of juice . |
| 30 | That was one of the things I liked about him . |