Example sentences of "[v-ing] things [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no use in keeping things that you 're not gon na use okay ? |
| 2 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 5 | and I do n't know how he managed to fit it in er but some people manage it erm it means that sometimes you , you know , you 're very time limited on , on , on writing things and you do n't put in something that you feel does justice to yourself , you know , you put in what you think of as crap and , and you know mm |
| 6 | Erm one of the issues is going to be is whether or not we can afford to improve the level of the commitments apart from adding things as we go through . |
| 7 | Guy tells them they do n't look like they 're enjoying things and he wants them to take a holiday . |
| 8 | I 'd go shopping and start eating things before I reached the car . |
| 9 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 10 | Paul Jackson , for example , the Director of Programmes for Carlton Television , said a little while ago ‘ those who argue for Current Affairs to stay in peak time are just not accepting things as they are . |
| 11 | In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are . |
| 12 | ‘ Bad dream , that 's all , ’ get it now and then , dream there 's this big black bag full of horrible squirming things and it 's tied to my heels . |
| 13 | Now , if you find that you are not getting , yeah that 's right , if you find you are not getting things when you want them , and that is because accounts have not paid them , then you need to put in some collective action to resolve that problem . |
| 14 | We do not recommend the ordinary letter service for sending things that you want covered for compensation . |
| 15 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |
| 16 | It could be they have got out of the way of doing things that they used to enjoy . |
| 17 | It already makes us do things that we do not want to do and stops us doing things that we want to do . |
| 18 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's lovely to be busy , doing things that I really enjoy . ’ |
| 21 | You had a , you had a choice in sequence of doing things but you did n't have a choice in method , whereas in the tank farm I think you had a choice of method . |
| 22 | Erm I I am surprised well I do n't I 'm not surprised really they 're probably busy doing things but I thought we might have got a couple of vicars on this er this afternoon to talk about it . |
| 23 | ‘ But she was very brave and amazed the doctors by doing things when they thought she should have been dead long ago . ’ |
| 24 | In Japan , for example , you can get away with saying and doing things when you are drunk that would be unthinkable when sober . |
| 25 | Most people enjoy doing things if they can , it helps keep our minds active and our bodies healthy . |
| 26 | In presenting the rationalisations and justifications a group offers for doing things as it does , we will seem to be accepting its rationalisations and justifications and accusing other parties to the transaction in the words of their opponents . |
| 27 | They 've got certain channels and ways of doing things and they 're loathe to venture outside of them . |
| 28 | People get set into certain ways of doing things and they do n't evaluate whether its working or not . |
| 29 | That was more or less his way of doing things and it cost a lot . |
| 30 | Each surgeon has his own way of doing things and I know something could go wrong . |