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 | ‘ My residential project was one of the most demanding things I had to do , ’ says Martin . |
| 11 | Who 's got five different things they think they are important , they would like to change , they would like to stay the same , who 's got more than five , more than five ? |
| 12 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 13 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 14 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 15 | It 's telling us how many sets of different things we 've got . |
| 16 | Please pray that you 'll be with each one of us and that we 'll enjoy today with grandma and all the different things we 'll do . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there 'll be a range of different things I could become committed to and do well . |
| 18 | Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ? |
| 19 | The bank I pay cos there 's two or three different things I have to pay to the bank which they insist if you have a development loan you have to have this and you have to have that and that comes |
| 20 | I 've got all different things I do n't like these earphones they hurt my ears . |
| 21 | If you think of the variety of commercials you see on TV , there are many different things you can do in commercials : animation ; live action , used in perhaps the majority of commercials ; puppetry ; mixed live action and animation ; computer graphics and picture modification ; a variety of special effects . |
| 22 | Yes , so they had did have a variety of different things you you could er be |
| 23 | Now there 's two different things you can do , there 's one which you were originally gon na do when it was a project . |
| 24 | is n't very specific , it gives eighteen different things you should do through all of them , you could just get |
| 25 | We just started on different things you know . |
| 26 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 27 | he offered the house for all the brothers to come in and they would laid out er sandwiches and the cakes and er quiche that you 've made and er different , different things you know , we all went to back to their house . |
| 28 | I ca n't remember how you get there , I ca n't remember how cards is how many cards it is , but you get loads of cards , with with pictures of different things you have to kiss and it ranges from the hand at one point , navel six points , bottom seven , lips eight points , cheek three points , erm the chest fifteen points and there 's a fig leaf one fig leaf bud in there , fifteen points and you can kiss anything you like . |
| 29 | Although this distinction is not widely known , I think it is a most helpful one because when words mean radically different things it is useful to have some way of distinguishing them outwardly . |
| 30 | ‘ I was n't there , ’ Maria confirmed , but she found she was having to force the resentment now , needing to remind herself — and him — of all the other lesser things she had lost as well . |