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Example sentences of "[adj] things [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 .