Example sentences of "[art] things i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All the things I told you about Petula … they applied just as much to a jealous dog as to a jealous woman . |
| 2 | Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales . |
| 3 | This was one of the one of the things I asked him was n't it ? |
| 4 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 5 | ‘ One of the things I like you for , ’ the young man said , ‘ is that there is no pretence about you . |
| 6 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll call for you after lunch , and we can go shopping for all the things I thought you 'd like to choose for yourself . ’ |
| 8 | I took the things I thought he would like ( not just the clever-clever things , like the perspective of Ladymont ) . |
| 9 | As time went on , to avoid a whipping , I learned to tell her only the things I thought she wanted to hear . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're not going to believe half the things I tell you , are you ? ’ |
| 11 | But I find it more useful actually to write out the things I want you to actually do . |
| 12 | ‘ And now , ’ said the Superintendent carefully , ‘ I 'd like you to get out your notebook , and make a list of the things I want you to do . |
| 13 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 14 | Now one of the things I think we need to do , And I I I put it in there and it 's pa it 's part of my appraisal system , is to do some work on actually entitlements to training . |