Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about 40 minutes the process is complete and you will be able to see some things in great detail even in the blackest night . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I suppose we will have to arrange some things , ’ said Franca. ‘ like , I suppose you mean , the timetable , which nights you spend with Alison and so on ? |
| 3 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 4 | Still , its nice to know some things hardly change . |
| 5 | But I do want you to write some things for next time . |
| 6 | The students need to take with them to the placement properly prepared work-assignments requiring them , with the assistance of hotel staff , to observe some things , to do others and to enquire about a third group . |
| 7 | Surely you see a difference between me , who wrote long , incoherent , and enthusiastic letters , enjoyed perfectly the songs of birds and the sight of a sundown , believed in the possibility of perfect happiness , perfect beauty , perfect purity , and a perfect world , all perfected , too , by that thing Nature which was so real to me ; a difference between me then and thus , and what I am now , dull unenthusiastic , unimaginative , but more coherent and prudent , though still imprudent enough to write such things as that Sonnet , which even you esteem bad , I think … . |
| 8 | Even after our Mexican upbringing , it was a revelation to find such things still going on , unknown to the outside world — and there were still another thirteen thousand Indonesian islands to explore , if we could only reach and film them while there was still time . |
| 9 | ‘ I make it my business to know such things , young man . ’ |
| 10 | But , excuse me , you wo n't want to know such things . ’ |
| 11 | If he considered it necessary for her to know such things , did that mean she was remaining on board after today ? |
| 12 | Too often it is left to the police and union officials to work these things out in a hostile environment where clear thinking is at a premium . |
| 13 | You have to work these things out before you go to France your money wo n't you ? |
| 14 | Going back to the ‘ Economic Seminar ’ , you seem to accept these things are bound to exist , these small inner groups . |
| 15 | We just have to accept these things and get on with it . |
| 16 | For members of the society it has never been so important to know these things . |
| 17 | But it has always been the privilege of the genius to know these things before other men . |
| 18 | Why do you want to know these things ? ’ she asked . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose you need to know these things … |
| 20 | But the courts like to know these things ; it creates a comfortable illusion of precision and that 's what justice is about . |
| 21 | You 're supposed to know these things . ’ |
| 22 | Well I have to know these things . |
| 23 | I need to know these things here just for erm wait and I 'll read it . |
| 24 | For those who like to know these things the Italians are in blue with their black stripe on the jersey and er black shorts , and very smart looking team they are . |
| 25 | you 've got to know these things no good well they might . |
| 26 | So people have to devise ways of adapting to this gap between what they want and expect from society and the means they have available to obtain these things . |
| 27 | Business people are trying to provide these things which we want . |
| 28 | Since the arrival of civilisation , providing for a family does not necessarily mean the direct production of food , clothing and shelter , but of making an adequate effort to provide these things by using the organisation of the society lived in . |
| 29 | After all , as the planners maintain , government legislation requires every local authority to provide a full range of services and so it is only logical and business-like to plan to provide these things cheaply . |
| 30 | But this is the place to try these things cos the more you try the better you become |