Example sentences of "[prep] thing that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he ate and drank she found herself chattering away to him out of nervousness , a stream of things that went through her head , the small happenings of a day . |
| 2 | It is natural to borrow such words as " reproduce " and " generation " , which have associations with living things , because living things are the main examples we know of things that participate in cumulative selection . |
| 3 | You mentioned earlier on that that perhaps er like with Guy Fawkes , there 's a lot of things that come from the past , from our history and we lose Perhaps we lose a bit of sight about where they 've come from . |
| 4 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |
| 5 | There was a whole host of things that had to be monitored by the stewards er on a daily basis . |
| 6 | She said there was this female , that the other thing , and there was a whole long list of things that pointed to this interpretation , and it was all part of a , as you say a great mass of data , that erm , is , is quite mind-bogglingly large , if you actually erm , see it in words . |
| 7 | Erm there are different things that e effect consumer policy , environmental policy , and there are lots of things that happen in the educational field . |
| 8 | Yeah it 's for some er it 's for somebody to get a general idea of the kind of things that happen in lectures . |
| 9 | ‘ But since Sir Charles died , I have heard about a number of things that seem to be supernatural . |
| 10 | Erm , a slightly different set of things that happened to me . |
| 11 | I hope that privatisation will not lead to the kind of things that happened after deregulation . |
| 12 | Chris took the chair and I went through the list of things that needed to be done to get us off the ground : a bank account , an address and telephone number somewhere , an eye-catching logo . |
| 13 | I have a couple of things that need to be seen to before the programme goes out . ’ |
| 14 | They find a backlog of work building up , in which important but less urgent planning and discussing never get to the top of the pile , being submerged by the constant stream of things that have to be dealt with immediately . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do n't we make a list of things that have to be done ? ’ she suggested practically . |
| 16 | I do n't know ; the sort of thing that gets into the back of the Eye . |
| 17 | It was n't the kind of thing that grew on you . |
| 18 | I mean certainly there 's the horrid sort of thing that happens on date rape |
| 19 | I see things like senile dementia as being a direct result of restricted breathing over very many years — in 20 , 30 or 40 years you can do to yourself the same sort of thing that happens in an operating theatre if oxygen is withdrawn . ’ |
| 20 | And I think that 's the kind of thing that needs to be done . |
| 21 | But it 's a strange kind of thing that happened in this part of the country , the kind of story you get in Suffolk and Norfolk . |
| 22 | There 's something special about things that come to us over the centuries . ’ |
| 23 | You feel guilty in the here and now about things that happened in the past which you can not correct . |
| 24 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Michael 's a brilliant lyricist , he can talk about things that matter without it being obvious , so when we got together there was no way we were going to do a creamy , greasy duet . |
| 26 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 27 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |
| 28 | I mean , I 'm not into things that happen for effect or for taste ; I like doing things that mean something . |
| 29 | I 've always wanted to be involved in things that tried to somehow create a women 's network . |
| 30 | The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws . |