Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 2 | Them twilly things like |
| 3 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 4 | ‘ I hate them bloody things . ’ |
| 5 | Cos it 's them bloody things we 've got ! |
| 6 | They never ever mention them bloody things , they were them windscreen wipers which I ordered before Christmas and it 's , it 's ridiculous , cos that 's , I know I can eh , I know by the er , by the er , that 's where I sent them back to that Brian Mill whatever I call it , well |
| 7 | His clothes , some of them old things of Theo 's which had been altered for him , were shabby , and were getting spattered with paint . |
| 8 | They were very short muzzle things , but them old things there like that , they were jumping when you were firing them you know . |
| 9 | ‘ Best get out of them wet things , ’ he said , kneeling down beside him , ‘ so 's I can dry them for tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | Th them funny things ? |
| 11 | And her companion answered in an even louder voice , ‘ It 's one of them tinny things . |
| 12 | No I growing things . |
| 13 | it 's got er , it 's got one of them white things with a black line on it I 'm sure |
| 14 | I do n't know what them fly things are for . |
| 15 | Rigor rules north of the Tyne ; numerical and adjectival grades tell you different things — as they are meant to . |
| 16 | The three chief contenders for the leadership of the Socialist Party , when the ailing Andreas Papandreou hands it over , all tell you sensible things that would have got them drummed out of the party ten years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ You patched things up ? ’ |
| 18 | Peter Noone , formerly Herman of Herman 's Hermits , recorded ‘ Oh , You Pretty Things ’ , a song written by David , which entered the British charts and oiled the gears of the DeFries negotiating machine . |
| 19 | ‘ You poor things , ’ murmured Tommaso 's mother , looking glad however that the Pittagoras suffered some misfortune . |
| 20 | You poor things ! |
| 21 | she 's having to make , you wicked things . |
| 22 | They tell you important things , things you want to hear , and five minutes later they ca n't remember what they 've said . |
| 23 | ‘ Money buys you certain things , but it ca n't buy you the simple pleasures in life like going around the corner into a bar and having a drink , ’ he says |
| 24 | No when when you other things to talk to . |
| 25 | But that 's one thing I did , I used to tell the girls I said , Give them decent things , I said like that . |
| 26 | For he that is mighty hath done to me great things , and holy is his name . |
| 27 | Rye praises the IT she has received : ‘ The project has kept me off the streets and taught me useful things like carpentry . |
| 28 | ‘ Must have been , otherwise why would all them nice Germans have done all them wicked things what he told them ? ’ |
| 29 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 30 | I gi him general things on their own , I mean , it 's , it 's really quiet . |