Example sentences of "[prep] thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other , more disturbing reading is that the Shakespearian phrases are made appropriate because the present situation reinterprets them in such a way that we are forced to wonder if a Burbank-Volupine situation was not just the sort of thing they were talking about all along . |
| 2 | And it 's the sort of thing they could do . |
| 3 | It was probably the sort of thing they gave medals for , if you were interested . |
| 4 | But it 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 5 | In fact , it sounds rather like the tone of a flat-out , old Fender Champ — not the kind of thing they 'd like to hear down at your local C&W club ! |
| 6 | ( Yes , all you Guardian and Independent readers , that 's the sort of thing they wanted your £30 for … ) |
| 7 | And we have geared our bills to the kind of thing they are used to . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 9 | So I said yeah , although I was more into soul music at the time , the sort of thing they played in pubs : Kool & The Gang , Earth Wind & Fire , even Michael Jackson before he was an industry . |
| 10 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 11 | They 're the same sort of thing they 're neutralizing each other . |
| 12 | Well Birmingham certainly will cos it 's the sort of thing they like doing . |
| 13 | It 's just the kind of thing they like to put in their newsbooks at school . |
| 14 | ‘ Dotty , precious , ’ I said , ‘ this is the sort of thing they lock people away in mental asylums for … |
| 15 | I mean in summary , I , I 'd say that this is the sort of thing they 'd look for in a , in a portfolio . |
| 16 | This is the sort of thing they really go to town on : an armed man , probably wounded , probably hiding out nearby . |
| 17 | In fact they pay for the sort of thing they used to skive out of when they were at school . ’ |
| 18 | It 's a sort of computer nerd 's version of the kind of thing they hand out free with Shoot ! every now and then , only you typeset it instead of using crayons . |
| 19 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |
| 20 | He warned : ‘ Once somebody gets hooked on this sort of thing they may step it up . |
| 21 | Nah , you know , in the words of Abraham Lincoln , people who like that sort of thing will find it 's the sort of thing they like . |
| 22 | No , and if they do that sort of thing they can charge the earth for it |
| 23 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 24 | It 's a , it 's a sort of thing they could do . |
| 25 | And the kind of thing they made of course erm were just short moments of motion , short silent films which showed action which lasted about a minute . |
| 26 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |
| 27 | Nor do they describe the sort of thing we are supposed to like very much . |
| 28 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 29 | You must know the kind of thing we mean . |
| 30 | This was the type of thing we were proud of . |