Example sentences of "[adj] thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
2 | The depths that Ace seemed prepared to sink to just to hurt and wound her were the most painful things she 'd experienced since the start of their relationship . |
3 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
4 | TEN TASTY THINGS YOU CAN EAT MORE OF |
5 | Ten tasty things you can eat more of : |
6 | ‘ There are a lot of exciting things we have got lined up which we were not going to launch until we launched Taurus , but we will come out with these products . |
7 | One of the most exciting things you can do with Harris 's hawks is what 's called ‘ flying a cast ’ . |
8 | Some of the exciting things I could do without . |
9 | Those are the exciting things I 'll explain later . |
10 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
11 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
12 | When we find this extremely difficult , there are a few things we can do to make it easier . |
13 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
14 | that I 'm w now , so what I suggest we do , is before we say we must make your premenstrual tension better with various manip various bits and bobs , and there are quite a few things we can do to help . |
15 | Erm I just want to go back and talk about a few things we just touched on earlier . |
16 | ‘ I think there are a few things we ought to get straight , ’ he said coolly . |
17 | ‘ I 'll just fetch a few things we might need . ’ |
18 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
19 | There 's a few things we need from the shops that I did n't get yesterday . |
20 | However , I have now been through the notebook you left with me and there are a few things I wish . |
21 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
22 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
23 | One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving . |
24 | I have enclosed a few things I would like you to look at when you have a moment . |
25 | He started off at Ramsbottom depot , er , a few things I did n't know about him . |
26 | ‘ And I suppose there are quite a few things I have n't done . |
27 | ‘ It sounds nice and I appreciate it , but if it 's all the same to you , there are a few things I need to catch up on . |
28 | Come ashore with me — I have a few things I must do . |
29 | ‘ It 's my first race so there 's a few things I 've got to work on , ’ Mansell said . |
30 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |