Example sentences of "things that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others . |
| 2 | Clair George , listing the things that had to be done — — finding private money , transferring it out of the country , buying arms , shipping them , procuring boats and aircraft — noted that North had been obliged to do all this ‘ with a gum band and some balsa wood ’ . |
| 3 | But seeing the confusion on her desk , all the things that had to be done , she lost heart . |
| 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 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 7 | Well I often think there , there could be something for women priests because they would see the more practical things that had to be done |
| 8 | Things that had for centuries slept without stirring , but that were now stirring and waking and might , at any moment , come prowling through the forest … |
| 9 | Scholarship and sport and money and poetry : four of the things that mattered to the young Welshman , and something else he needed more : opportunity . |
| 10 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 11 | Sorry what were the erm things that related to personality ? |
| 12 | To have both a family and interesting work means a terrible struggle , and yet I think that those are the things that make for human happiness . |
| 13 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |
| 14 | It 's just one of those things that happens at parties ; people do get drunk and they do do things they would n't normally think of . |
| 15 | Smith , the car 's owner , told magistrates at Eastbourne : ‘ It was just one of those things that happens after a few bevvies . ’ |
| 16 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 17 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 18 | He is infinitely kind to all the things that go into his pictures . |
| 19 | There 's four things that go into a blast furnace . |
| 20 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 21 | Aye , well I mean that There 's there 's so many things that go through your mind that In a situation like that . |
| 22 | Ordinary things that go on all the time . |
| 23 | If I assemble a rolling chassis with a V8 , air conditioning , coil springs , full time four wheel drive and other things that go with a 110 , can the 109 body be laid on that chassis . |
| 24 | Difficulty of obtaining substances , trying to find the cash to buy the stuff , y'know , all the things that go with it , social problems , domestic problems , mental health problems . |
| 25 | Or some of the things that go with it ? |
| 26 | Some of the things that go with |
| 27 | It 's the things that go with them . |
| 28 | They 're going to work in leisure industries , in caring services , in education , all those things that go with what we think as a good life , and indeed , coming back to the third world , that 's the very kind of thing that we need in African villages and India — agriculturalists , erm teachers , health workers and so on . |
| 29 | The freezers filled up again , and the commercial sectors of the warren glittered and blazed ; though under the multiple roofs arranged like bumpy plates of armour , many other areas remained in darkness , the only light the sick green pallor of the phosphorescent things that grew on the walls in there . |
| 30 | 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 . |