Example sentences of "thing [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he did was ask Mr Fractor to explain things or tell him what he wanted to know . |
| 2 | This offer to transport us out of our own world , with all its problems , unfinished business , boredom and disappointment , into another world where we may escape these things or negotiate them vicariously , is perhaps the fundamental appeal of all narrative . |
| 3 | It is no good writing about these things or sweeping them under the carpet . |
| 4 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 5 | I say and do things that shock me . ’ |
| 6 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 7 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 8 | Erm , one of the things that depresses me , is probably the main thing that depresses me is not being valued for what I am or what I do and I think many women suffer from depression because their strengths and their creativity are not recognised and valued . |
| 9 | And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them . |
| 10 | Things that upset them could be an uninvited intruder through the cat flap , a row with another cat , even the arrival of a new three-piece suite . |
| 11 | Do n't be afraid to ask questions , to talk about things that upset you . |
| 12 | Alcohol and the smell of cauliflowers were the only two things that worried her . |
| 13 | Women seek to prove that they can perform equally with men , without , however , any allowances for those things that make them different , both physiologically and socially . |
| 14 | It simply refers to all the things the retailer does to look after the customers — the things that make them enjoy visiting that shop or store . |
| 15 | The little things that drive our family mad and the wonderful things that make them love us . |
| 16 | Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another . |
| 17 | I do n't see the point of doing things that make it sound completely unlike a guitar . |
| 18 | As you start to think about the things that make you anxious you realize that the passage is telling you not to be anxious but to pray with thanksgiving ! |
| 19 | Several things that make you think that there 's no one in there . |
| 20 | That things remain unconscious , not because you never knew about them , but because they 're never brought into the relevant connections with other things that make you conscious of the thing in the sense of seeing what 's in it for Mrs you know , reports . |
| 21 | These are the things that make us afraid , and we build ourselves secure places so as that we ca n't or do n't have any need to be afraid . |
| 22 | As Bartholomew puts it ‘ … your minds have programmed you against wealth and pleasure , against things that make your eyes sparkle and your feet dance . ’ |
| 23 | Bearing in mind that active are things that take your time forward , in the long-term , reactive are things like scale checks , you know you 're daily , fairly monotonous tasks like that . |
| 24 | Some of their comments , it 's like the untutored eye , they pick out things that surprise you because you 've got so used to a particular manner of approaching images , that you forget that there are other ways of doing it . |
| 25 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 26 | Let me just it 's nothing special , it 's only a circle , but if you were to take that for a , as , as an example if you like as a picture of God 's purposes for us , you see the circle is , is , geometrical it 's , it 's , it 's perfect , there is nothing that is odd about it , there is nothing er , there 's no difference about it , it is perfect and that was God 's purpose and God 's plan for you and for me , that our , that our time , our being should be perfect in , in harmony with him , you think of all the things in your life personally , and then think of all the things in the , in the life of your com of our community , those things that mar it , those things that spoil it , those things that stop today be the perfect day for you that 's not God 's purpose for you they 've all come as a product , a direct result of sin , it was n't how God intended it , it was n't how God made it , his plan , his purpose for you and for me was to live and to dwell together with him in perfect harmony for ever , and there |
| 27 | And what we in fact the the reason we tell people everything on the phone Ron is that there are some things that pen I did have one here , |
| 28 | Break themself from all those things that hold them and that captivate them and hold their interest . |
| 29 | Things that took her back to when she was young . |
| 30 | I 'd return home and do all the usual things that keep your sense of yourself — eat , play around with children , do my washing , telephone my nearest and dearest , talk late into the night with my hosts , have fantasies , pleasure myself . |