Example sentences of "[num ord] things [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first things we need to do if we wish to consider sexuality without personal hang-ups getting in the way is to get over our revulsion against sexual terms . |
| 2 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 3 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the first things we think about when we 're asked to design a playground is position . |
| 5 | He told People writer Victor Olliver : ‘ One of the first things we did in 1976 was to repaint the China Corridor . |
| 6 | We decided one of our first things we had to do was decide on a sequence of construction for these tanks . |
| 7 | Hoping to get the answer that one of the first things we did no rising was to wash , I was a little disconcerted when my same little lady piped up ‘ weight ourselves ’ . |
| 8 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 9 | Her bedspread is frilled pink with white flowers , and the first things you notice on entering her room are a full-length mirror and an exercise bike , which she says she rarely uses . |
| 10 | When you buy a valuable piece of equipment , like a new car or furniture for your home , one of the first things you do , is to insure it in case of accidental damage . |
| 11 | If you get a job as a shop assistant or checkout operator , one of the first things you will learn is till procedure . |
| 12 | ONE OF THE first things you must consider when producing your first R/C helicopter is which type of radio equipment to use . |
| 13 | So , one of the first things you notice in Northern cities hit by unemployment is babies , lots of babies , with very young parents . |
| 14 | It 's one of the first things you have to face up to . |
| 15 | One of the first things you 'll realise is that you work for an organisation that has to react and respond rapidly to changing circumstances . |
| 16 | People moving in , this was in the medical practice , people moving in new er new er new first things you do is register with a doctor . |
| 17 | The first things you find out are an immense relief : Russian has no words for ‘ a ’ and ‘ the ’ , and no present tense of the verb ‘ to be ’ . |
| 18 | Do you know one of the very first things I noticed and liked in you , was the way you shook one 's hand , and looked straight at one as you said goodbye . |
| 19 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 20 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 21 | ‘ My father bought the estate before the war for the milk , not ever intending to go there , but then when the war came we lived there , from about 1942 when I was four and the first things I remember in life were from there . ’ |
| 22 | The first things I did came a cropper . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the first things I had to learn by heart when I went to Maythorpe House was a poem by an Englishman , Laurence Binyon . |
| 24 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 25 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 26 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 27 | It was one of the first things she put on the wall when they re-decorated the house . |
| 28 | The day after her double transplant one of the first things she did was to grab her mother 's hand and say : ‘ I 'll be able to grow up and have kids now , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 29 | This activity was something she was the most proud of , one of the first things she would tell new friends about her work . |
| 30 | His grey whipcord coat with its black velvet collar hung open , and he came quickly across with that purposeful step which was one of the first things she had noticed about him . |