Example sentences of "[to-vb] things [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His assistant should have directed a scene after lunch but the director returned to find things at a stand-still . |
| 2 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |
| 3 | ‘ I ai n't goin' downstairs , ’ said Linda , ‘ I bet you was goin' to pinch things from that bag . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Two drawcorded vents can be used to increase air flow in the shelter or to pass things in or out . |
| 6 | Often , I would n't bother to try things on — I 'd look at the price tag and think ‘ I 've got to have this , ’ especially if I thought it was a ‘ bargain ’ I might not see again . |
| 7 | Acceptance enables you not to have to hide things about yourself and to find freedom to be yourself . |
| 8 | All burglars know that ninety-eight per cent of all housewives decide to hide things in the tea caddy . ’ |
| 9 | Also what opportunities are there for people to have fun , to keep physically fit , to play games or to discover things of interest ? |
| 10 | Some may prefer to be presented with a prescribed set of facts and skills , whilst others may learn best by being encouraged to discover things for themselves , often as solutions to problems . |
| 11 | This new multimedia thingamajig allows you to discover things on your own through the wondrous use of the hypermedia approach to education . |
| 12 | Nothing ‘ happened ’ — but that was n't my fault and I do n't think much of a man who 's foul-mouthed enough to insinuate things about his own sister ! ’ |
| 13 | It is not difficult to derive more information from the basic recorded information by combining two or more parameters , and thus to establish things like rate of climb or descent and rate of change of airspeed . |
| 14 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |
| 15 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 16 | He did n't really strike her as a particularly nosy person , just wanting to know things for the hell of it . |
| 17 | He now launches a parallel attack on the idea that individuals are by nature the sort of creatures who can come to know things through their experience of the external world . |
| 18 | ‘ It must be wonderful to know things like that . ’ |
| 19 | Governments are paid to know things like that . |
| 20 | Does er we need to know things like that and if you |
| 21 | ‘ There are undoubtedly people around who would like to bounce things in that direction ( towards fees ) . ’ |
| 22 | All children need to be given the chance to create things by means of the new technologies . |
| 23 | ‘ We have to open things to discussion . |
| 24 | A marriage can do the same , provided the couple are prepared to talk things through and really want to make a go of it . |
| 25 | When we first met he told me he could n't stand rows but I like to talk things over when I feel something 's wrong . |
| 26 | ‘ You have the ability to view things on a wide scale . ’ |
| 27 | The third , ‘ How I See Philosophy ’ ( 1956 ) , distinguished philosophical arguments from deductive demonstrations of theses and instead illustrated how to treat philosophical problems on the model of psychoanalysis ; the patient must acknowledge his own difficulties and dissolve his problems by coming to view things in new ways . |
| 28 | It is impossible to define things in absolute terms and pin down their meaning , because all meaning is relational and therefore shifting ( like the metaphorical gender of fork ) . |
| 29 | If the thing was so valuable , then the secrecy and the size of the fee were understandable And if how the Emissary lived was any indication of life at the top on Fraxilly , presumably the God-King did like to own things worth a planet 's ransom . |
| 30 | To make a living he had to sell things over the counter-like his brother . ’ |