Example sentences of "[to-vb] such things " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 … . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I make it my business to know such things , young man . ’ |
| 4 | But , excuse me , you wo n't want to know such things . ’ |
| 5 | If he considered it necessary for her to know such things , did that mean she was remaining on board after today ? |
| 6 | First you go past an array of AWACS planes , wondering whether you are actually allowed to see such things . |
| 7 | If you wished to borrow such things you instinctively made it clear that you intended no blasphemy . |
| 8 | Alix continued to attend such things , in unbroken allegiance to her upbringing . |
| 9 | Just as materials offered to young children in the classroom can be chosen to provide them with experiences leading to the acquisition of mathematical ideas , so the provision and organisation of outdoor activities can encourage children to explore such things as balance , weight , height , depth , direction , speed , spatial order , shape and size with very little participation from an adult . |
| 10 | The Consumer Congress was anxious to introduce good practices to cover such things as access , choice , information , safety and redress . |
| 11 | It could include all the resources of the business , including the people of interest such as EMPLOYEE , and it can be extended to cover such things as a SALES-ORDER , INVOICE and PROFIT-CENTRE . |
| 12 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 13 | Of course , one has to expect such things to occur amongst maids and footmen , and a good butler should always take this into account in his planning ; but such marrying amongst more senior employees can have an extremely disruptive effect on work . |
| 14 | We might say it is galling for people to hear such things when they have been told they will die in the wilderness , but at least the promises of God remain very much in force for their children . |
| 15 | It was Jackson who did his best to avoid such things . |
| 16 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 17 | then showing that some terminology is required to discuss such things : terms are taught in context for a purpose . |
| 18 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 19 | For the next two weeks we would like to re-cover such things as divan headboards , fireside chairs etc . |
| 20 | If you have a somewhat limited understanding of sex you may have wondered why people contrive to incorporate such things as whips , chains , handcuffs and strange costumes into their sexual relations . |
| 21 | They can then go on to order him to do such things as they consider necessary to effect the abatement . |
| 22 | Do you really think I am a man to do such things ? ’ |
| 23 | In doing this , the system may have to combine and manipulate information from a number of different sources : the operator specifies the letters and clauses to be used ; the system fills out certain details from the data base ; in some cases it may have to do such things as take the salary and location from the data base , look up the conditions for that location , find out that certain uplifts need to be applied to salary , perform the arithmetic and insert the answers in the appropriate places in the text . |
| 24 | Goodness , were people ‘ ordered ’ to do such things in these days Sophia wondered , seeing the crowded waiting-room at the doctor 's surgery . |
| 25 | If you 're at all unsure how to do such things , the slim manual covers the process in minute detail — almost too much detail for the more experienced user . |
| 26 | Harclay 's motives were entirely understandable , but his action was technically treasonable for he was ‘ a private person to whom it in no wise pertained to ordain such things ’ . |
| 27 | Asked whether people who give to the WWF to protect such things as pandas , whales and rainforests realized that their money is also being used in this way , in particular to support the bloodsport of angling , he said he had never thought of angling as a bloodsport and donations had been listed in their magazine . |
| 28 | The events of that September stopped all new building work and instead the Leaders had to consider such things as provision of black-out curtains for the church . |
| 29 | G. Scunthorpe ( 66 000 people ) is a town which was created solely for the iron and steel industry and for heavy engineering , using the steel to build such things as cranes and sections for bridges . |
| 30 | The skilled negotiator is far more likely to say things that reveal what he or she is thinking , intending and feeling than the less skilled , who reckon that to expose such things is naïve . |