Example sentences of "of thing [conj] [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 | In the latter case one is confronted by something like a functioning assembly which needs to be dismantled and analysed before it can be understood , whereas in the former case one has something much more like an ‘ exploded ’ view of things as seen in a working drawing . |
| 17 | I do n't know ; the sort of thing that gets into the back of the Eye . |
| 18 | It was n't the kind of thing that grew on you . |
| 19 | I mean certainly there 's the horrid sort of thing that happens on date rape |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | And I think that 's the kind of thing that needs to be done . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 24 | Er you , she 'd take , you , you 'd teach her to bath it and , and , and this sort of thing and look after him . |