Example sentences of "[det] the things " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of the tour is so that they can actually er listen to it , but they can turn it off whenever they want and they can use their guide book to see what is in each room and if you look at the guidebook as we go round , you will find that that the things are illustrated , you know the pot . |
| 2 | What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there . |
| 3 | If half the things I 've done became public , I might be behind bars now . |
| 4 | ‘ You never know half the things you 've got until you have to do something about them , ’ he said amiably . |
| 5 | It 's often said the best way to pack for a holiday is to lay everything out you think you 'll need — and then leave half the things behind . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't know half the things he can make , Melanie . ’ |
| 7 | He could hear the men beginning the old bawdy ‘ Thousand and One Nights of the Wolfking ‘ , which had been written about Cormac , and which Lugh did not care for overmuch , because even if you discounted half the things it said , you were still left with a patently exaggerated tale . |
| 8 | Her father could not possibly have owned a house like this , nor could he have owned half the things in it . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not going to believe half the things I tell you , are you ? ’ |
| 10 | She had n't meant half the things she 'd said to him . |
| 11 | She did n't know where half the things went , but she tidied them up and put them in piles on the stairs so people could taken them up to their rooms when they went , and the kitchen looked nice and tidy . |
| 12 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 13 | I would n't have covered half the things that we covered in that time , yeah ? |
| 14 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 15 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 16 | I should n't say half the things I do say , but I ge I get upset I do ! |
| 17 | And er , it was very amusing , but repeatable , half the things he wrote in it , and erm , it 's very , it was very good , but , he is quite good at that when he sets his mind to it , it usually takes him about three days to do it , but he does like to er , write messages in people 's cards . |
| 18 | Oh it 's changed no end erm particularly the fire safety and firing , fire prevention angle has changed erm the operational side has changed in as much the things are more complicated nowadays buildings are more complicated erm fire losses are greater erm |
| 19 | He is infinitely kind to all the things that go into his pictures . |
| 20 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 21 | There do n't seem to be enough hours in the day to do all the things you have to do , quite apart from your laundry ! |
| 22 | But there is the chance of working with Cicely Berry , who is so wonderful at adding in a positive , performance orientated way to all the things you have learnt about voice . |
| 23 | The Comet was listed after the damage had been done , and with the Prospect Inn it was necessary to itemise all the things that had not changed , since the superficial impression of change was predominant . |
| 24 | Look at all the things I 've done — I 'm not being choosy . |
| 25 | It is important to try and keep in practice in order to reinforce all the things which have been learned during the pre-solo training . |
| 26 | Have I got all the things I need to do this ? |
| 27 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |
| 28 | in the midst of all the things of the world |
| 29 | Dr Runcie acknowledged that ‘ wealth creation ’ was the necessary precondition for ‘ doing all the things we ought to do ’ but added that there was no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society . |
| 30 | But in this rather frightening vision of the present and future , so have all the things I learnt to care about in eating : flavour , texture , invention , subtlety , companionship — and leisure , which marks the end of the working day and the use of time , not its gobbling . |