Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thinks the manufacturing experience I had was very important , because it enabled me to see things from the manufacturer 's point of view , which many retailers have n't done . |
| 2 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 3 | It was Peter who forced me to see things in a different light . ’ |
| 4 | That frees me to enjoy things I would n't normally even try . |
| 5 | ‘ I stay in my room and if I 'm feeling troubled about something I write it out on paper and that helps me to work things out . ’ |
| 6 | If we could send some of the people over there , to help them to retrain things and reorganise things . |
| 7 | Erm , the trouble is , if you do n't know the vocabulary it 's very hard to dictate and write down because you have to keep stopping and asking them to spell things . |
| 8 | It was odds on that the cops had got to him by now , but in case they had n't it might pay me to square things with him . |
| 9 | The commissioner with responsibility for regional development , Bruce Millan , met Peter Lilley , the trade and industry secretary , Ian Lang , the secretary of state for Scotland , and David Hunt , the secretary of state for Wales on April 25th , partly in order to try to persuade them to sort things out . |
| 10 | I left them to sort things like that out . |
| 11 | There 's nothing like a little twisting and twiddling to encourage them to remember things . |
| 12 | I do n't want you to find things out about me , I do n't want you to stop liking me . " |
| 13 | I 'd like you to write things down because I think you 're gon na remember them , he says , hopefully ! |
| 14 | This new multimedia thingamajig allows you to discover things on your own through the wondrous use of the hypermedia approach to education . |
| 15 | Incidentally , there 's another hotkey that disables this for 10 seconds , long enough for you to shut things down before the UPS leaps into action . |
| 16 | Time enough for you to fix things with London ? |
| 17 | ‘ There was no conception of opening up a capacity for you to do things for yourself . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , the headmaster is quite right , you ca n't tell a teacher what you 're going to do … for your own good some time son you 're going to have to learn the lesson that there are people who can force you to do things and you 're going to have to do them and you 've got no choice . ’ |
| 19 | Sponsorship should of course be the icing on the cake , there should be enough in , in competition in regattas and themselves but people are interested enough to go and to support and that sponsorship actually allows you to do things that you would n't have been able to do otherwise . |
| 20 | Think of people that have influenced you in the past , and got you to do things , which , if you look back , and you think , that was very clever . |
| 21 | You had your certain lot of wee machines that helped you to do things but more or less it was all done with the hand . |
| 22 | I am totally convinced that the people in Holyhead want you to put things on , pick them up at the door , drop them off , teach them how to do it er and drop them back again . |
| 23 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 24 | Do n't want to I want you to learn things but there 's no point in learning everything twice is there or learning more than you need to at the moment . |
| 25 | They allow you to imply things without saying them directly , and so to develop complex arguments in relatively short passages of writing . |
| 26 | Your question about why are n't women angry — maybe people do n't express anger until they can see that there is some point in being angry and that being angry actually helps you to change things . |
| 27 | All these nice people wanting you to join things . |
| 28 | I know you 've always been jealous of my success as a model , but I wo n't allow you to ruin things for Garry and me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I shall need you to explain things to everyone . |
| 30 | I need you to tell things to . ’ |