Example sentences of "[pron] [art] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'll be able to come home in the evenings and you can teach me the things I need to know , ’ said Endill . |
| 2 | I thought of Tagore who said , ‘ withhold from me the things that man desire and want ; leave me only what they despise and overlook , they will be enough for me . ’ |
| 3 | You can tell me the things I need to know and I can go away . |
| 4 | ‘ I told you , Murphy , that although I am immensely grateful to you for helping me to repair the shed to make a hen house and for finding me the things I need , these are my hens and I shall look after them . |
| 5 | Can you bring me the things up we ca n't find . |
| 6 | Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances . |
| 7 | Admittedly there is a use of the word ‘ order ’ , as in ‘ the order in which the things are arranged ’ , but an order in the sense of something to be obeyed is not the expression of a belief that things are — or were or will be — in a certain sort of arrangement . |
| 8 | No no no no , by the host in which the things are . |
| 9 | ‘ I tell you the things I think will interest you . ’ |
| 10 | You do n't , that 's why I asked whether Richard could join your committee so that he could voice to you the things he tried to explain to me which I think are |
| 11 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 12 | Tell him the things are for Peter , the boy who was sorry about the coal , then he will understand . |
| 13 | I never had any money to buy her the things she wanted . ’ |
| 14 | If Hywel said to her the things the woman says , for a time Elizabeth would smile . |
| 15 | He told himself : I 'll have to be more careful ; have to keep to myself the things Miriam divulges about her husband 's past . |
| 16 | I tell myself the things you 'd like to do to me |
| 17 | Just had a call to say , Robbo , whatever the things hanging in your loft might be , wait until the Autumn , go up with a big stick , and knock them into a carrier bag . |
| 18 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 19 | I suggest , then , that the alleged non-naturalness of good and bad consists in their being properties of things which follow from what the things are like but which do not contribute to things being like what they are like . |
| 20 | Okay if you just sort of like think of a vague title which sums up what the things are which you want to cover in the essay and if you get it to me by Monday then that that 'll be quite good . |
| 21 | I mean I 've got a rough idea of what the things are |
| 22 | Cath 's just put a few things together and thought well I may as well let you , you know , she may as well let you know what the things she 's put in |
| 23 | However , I do feel that girls like Alison need long-term professional therapy , not just drugs and brief hospitalisation , to help them learn to ‘ feed ’ themselves — give themselves the things they need , such as food or privacy or rest and relaxation — without feeling guilty , and to recognise what these hungers and desires are . |
| 24 | His widow tells us the things we expect to hear ; that he was good , kind , gentle . |
| 25 | You must not think him ridden with angst just because , for once , he 's agreed to discuss with us the things he normally ignores . |