Example sentences of "thing that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three things that I remember most clearly about Basil were , firstly , his great interest in the development of children 's powers of observation , to help them with their aesthetic expression . |
| 2 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 3 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 4 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 5 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 6 | No because then , I just looked over all those things that I went and . |
| 7 | I 'm going to have some headed notepaper as soon as I can get the laser printer printing out things that I tell it to rather than printing out Courier Ten . |
| 8 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 9 | I get to act out all the horrors and pressures of fame , and some of the things that I worry about in my own life are purged . |
| 10 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 11 | Having lived on my own for four years , I 've found ways of doing things that I like , on my own , without having to bother about anyone else , and now I 've met this man , it means shaking everything up . |
| 12 | Erm one of the things that I like to emphasize er at this stage is that although it 's self employed it is as close to being employed as you can possibly be with a company but then but still destined by your own efforts to earn earn the money . |
| 13 | He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like . |
| 14 | And however my person , and parts be meane in the Worlds Eye , and so may cast an odium upon the things that I hold forth ; yet I shall runne the hazard in that kinde , and leave the Lord to gain his own Honour and Glory in it ; as seeing by sweet experience , it is one of his greatest designes in the World , to confound the high and mighty things thereof , by the most meane and contemptible . |
| 15 | You always taught me that I had so much to be thankful for , but there are still a lot of things that I wish had never happened . |
| 16 | When David did things that I thought were stupid , or when he did n't turn up , or he 'd turn up ‘ high ’ , I told him I thought he was stupid . |
| 17 | I started to take things from the house as well , y'know , little things that I thought would n't be noticed . |
| 18 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 19 | It has made me question every aspect of my teaching , including things that I thought I was doing well ! |
| 20 | One of the , one of the things that I mean the is cards . |
| 21 | I wonder if it 's one of those things that I mean she 's reading the story aloud , I wonder if you were reading that story as as well |
| 22 | I 'll tell , I 'll tell you what that 's , I think that 's what 's doing me up , it 's not being out of work it 's going out , it 's the things that I mean normally |
| 23 | It it 's one of those unfortunate things that I mean I think we 've we 've got to look around and see what we can do about . |
| 24 | you 'll you 'll be very comfortable with it and I can tell you now that 's one of the things that I got tied up with so |
| 25 | He 's into fun and games in bed , all the horny things that I get off on like spankings and Polaroid pictures . |
| 26 | One of the first things that I noticed in my workplace was that there was an entrenched , hostile division between Black and white colleagues . |
| 27 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 28 | Well , things that I learnt yesterday was erm Aldershot method the structured thought patterns and the coaching erm the Aldershot method is tremendous I liked that a lot for expansion editing summarising and first class and I will use it from now on . |
| 29 | There were things that I knew , but the programme brought it home more to me . |
| 30 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |