Example sentences of "[art] things [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did all the things we know he is capable of doing and he behaved himself as well . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They wrote everything down and remembered the things we told them . |
| 3 | It throws words like real and normal into question , continually challenges and subverts the things we take for granted , the things we think we know . |
| 4 | This CCOAC makes it more likely that Person Y was involved in the things we think he was involved in but … ’ |
| 5 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |
| 6 | And a lot of people realise that the things they thought they were going to do ( marry for love and have three children ) or hoped to do ( swim for Great Britain ) are less likely to come true . |
| 7 | Did the things they told you about the ad or the product correspond at all to what you hoped they would get out of it ? |
| 8 | Most of what local authorities do is in a sense not really party politically controversial because they 've got because most of the things they do they 've got to do , they 're mandated to do . |
| 9 | well you 're alr the , point it 's greater the things they find it , that er three quarter of the world were water once |
| 10 | He tries to persuade the children to talk to him about the things they feel they ca n't discuss with the staff . |
| 11 | I try to lead as normal a life as possible and not think about my condition or regret the things it prevents me from doing , which are not that many . |
| 12 | Beca becaus needless to say Windows has not examined all the things it wants you to fix . |
| 13 | That night , as often when she put Josh to bed , Clare held the most precious thing in her world close to her heart and felt guilty and ashamed that she was n't providing him with the things she thought she should . |
| 14 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 15 | She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us . |
| 16 | ‘ This is one of the things she wanted me to do . |
| 17 | I do n't seem to be able to do any of the things she wants me to do . |
| 18 | Be any of the things she wants me to be . ’ |
| 19 | Some of the things she called me would have won the admiration of Hell 's Kitchen . |
| 20 | the things he tells her . |
| 21 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 22 | ‘ All the things I told you about Petula … they applied just as much to a jealous dog as to a jealous woman . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This was one of the one of the things I asked him was n't it ? |
| 25 | ‘ One of the things I like you for , ’ the young man said , ‘ is that there is no pretence about you . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | I took the things I thought he would like ( not just the clever-clever things , like the perspective of Ladymont ) . |
| 29 | As time went on , to avoid a whipping , I learned to tell her only the things I thought she wanted to hear . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're not going to believe half the things I tell you , are you ? ’ |