Example sentences of "[verb] of things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |
| 2 | ‘ And my mother , ’ he continued crisply as though she had not spoken , ‘ did not need reminding of things that are best left forgotten . ’ |
| 3 | Well certainly at times of stress erm all sorts of things are revealed and that 's one of the reasons why the current situation and the anxiety and level of stress around has resulted in people feeling a whole range of things that perhaps has actually surprised them erm and therefore it 's not surprising that children are equally filled with all sorts of the mixed emotions about what 's going on . |
| 4 | Other people use different items to do and you can also let the children think of things to shout . |
| 5 | So if you can think of things like this top remember it helps . |
| 6 | You do n't think of things like that on your wedding day . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't think of things |
| 8 | So however a big a mess you make of things however big a mess you make of things everything is usually retrievable . |
| 9 | So however a big a mess you make of things however big a mess you make of things everything is usually retrievable . |
| 10 | I longed to know what Eva made of things , what she thought of Jamila , say , and the marriage of Changez . |
| 11 | He is thinking that Beuno had lived here all his life and no one Sought of things for him to do , or gave parties for him before . |
| 12 | Not uncommonly , indeed , they will speak of things which they have never before told anyone . |
| 13 | But sometimes Creggan and Kraal would ask Minch questions and she would speak of things she knew and wisdom she had taught herself or remembered from her distant past at Callanish . |
| 14 | In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews , that great chapter which deals with ‘ the nature and fruits of faith ’ as it is headed in the ‘ Thompson Chain Reference ’ bible , the third verse reads as follows - ‘ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God , so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear . ’ |
| 15 | Collections can be made of things that we use ‘ in the garden ’ or ‘ in the kitchen ’ , for instance . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , rhetoric is left out of the discussion until the final paragraph in which a promise is made of things to come . |
| 17 | I 'm being accused of things I did n't do — and I 'm missing a friend . ’ |
| 18 | Instead of seeing parties and pressures as enhancing of things they talked in terms of adversary party politics and an overload of interest group demands having harmful effects both politically and economically . |
| 19 | I am older because I have learnt , I am younger because a lot of me consisted of things older people had taught me . |
| 20 | The rising cost of getting rid of things |
| 21 | It was , in a way , a reverse , real-life version of ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ : instead of being equipped with things to make life in the tropics more bearable , Stanley was having to get rid of things to survive there . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I hear of things in my job , you know . ’ |
| 24 | But they did a whole bunch of things to us , like trying to sabotage our show . |
| 25 | We are a Christian church and we should be speaking of things of Christ . |
| 26 | And in the meantime , since he had spoken of things she ought to learn , she would see if he could tell her just what it was that women like Marie Moon and Audrey Covington-Pym did to stop themselves from bearing child after child after child . |
| 27 | ‘ I talk of things to be — whether they come in ten years or ten thousand . ’ |
| 28 | My world of smells consists of things like bully-beef , unwashed humanity , and the stink of cordite . |
| 29 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 30 | We defined it as being prepared to take into account in choices , and have throughout treated it as the fluctuating disposition to take the look and feel of things into account in choices of ends and the facts about them in choices of means . |