Example sentences of "[v-ing] these things " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says I 'm writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray . |
| 2 | Spent an hour revising these things ! |
| 3 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 4 | Erm and then of course in a sense almost bringing these things together the , the major and perhaps most influential of these er wars . |
| 5 | Oh I ai n't seen it yet , ha , S C R U signet , S I G N E T , S I G N E T that 's how you spell it signet , I 'll start using these things |
| 6 | The idea of eating these things seemed absurd , and yet Pinkie asked for some . |
| 7 | And he sent a photograph of you know , people in the boat and eating these things , you know ? |
| 8 | It 's hard going these things on your own . |
| 9 | I have asked no one else , I have given you the first opportunity of owning these things . ’ |
| 10 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 11 | But this could not be so if calling these things ‘ good ’ were just to reiterate that they promote the survival of the species . |
| 12 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 13 | Children will clearly need to be taught all these things and , as the Bullock report points out ( DES , 1975 ) , there ought to be little difficulty in teaching these things if , and it is a big if , they are taught in a practical manner so that children can see that they do actually help them . |
| 14 | Well , I 'd like to go back and talk to you about the exclusion clauses though , and the purchasing power of the people buying these things . |
| 15 | And supposing we identify particular features we judge as exemplifying these things , what is the evidence that those features do n't mean something else entirely ? |
| 16 | Yes so you , was there any difficulty or embarrassment about getting these things for the pessaries and the pills from the chemist ? |
| 17 | Strictly speaking these things fall outside what most people think of as ‘ the programme ’ . |
| 18 | You can be very good at saying these things about love , and doing it in a kind of way people can identify with , but it does n't necessarily tell the whole truth about yourself . |
| 19 | ‘ Every time we win , people start saying these things . |
| 20 | In saying these things one is , of course , not ‘ blaming ’ Jesus — any more than one is blaming , as individuals , any of his contemporaries for not comprehending the ethical necessity of human equality . |
| 21 | What is important is the discovery that saying these things can actually make us feel better , but only if we say them with sincerity . |
| 22 | And heard his voice saying these things with appalled horror . |
| 23 | There 's further to go and we 're gon na keep saying these things until we 're blue in the face , as well as |
| 24 | Was he really saying these things ? |
| 25 | Saying these things ? ’ |
| 26 | Nevertheless , there are ways of doing these things . |
| 27 | The animal will be aware of its prey in that it consciously perceives , pursues , and devours it , but it will be unaware that it is doing these things for the sake of satisfying its wants . |
| 28 | I suppose he does n't want to be seen to be just reacting to your letter he 's obviously started doing these things off his own bat anyway has n't he ? |
| 29 | The family is doing fewer things , but it is doing these things rather well . |
| 30 | Imagine doing these things in the wrong order . |