Example sentences of "those things [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often we assume that others want exactly what we want or need those things we find easiest to deliver . |
| 2 | Why he allows those things we just do not know . |
| 3 | Lying in bed at night is a perfect time for scanning our brain for those things we might have forgotten . |
| 4 | Gone are those things we loved to hate . |
| 5 | We but ape the actions of our ancestors ; unconsciously , slavishly , those things we consider most distinctly ours — that strange interplay of mind and nerve and sinew that we term gesture — formed a hundred generations before their use in us . |
| 6 | I felt a little shy : all those things we had written — would I be able to translate them into physical action , into real , spoken words ? |
| 7 | ‘ Like we said before , all those things we said before ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Sacco , you take some of the lads and get those things we put in the hedge , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 9 | For those things they buy only occasionally , and wish to choose carefully , they go to a larger central place , usually in the centre of a market town or a city . |
| 10 | In general , the reasons why people do develop into closely knit groups are threefold : because of those things they have in common , because of pressures from outside the group , and because of their need to fulfill their social and affiliation needs . |
| 11 | If she has older brothers and sisters , then the idea of sharing will be less of a shock for her , although even in these cases children cling to those things they think of as theirs . |
| 12 | And she was bound to confess that the Larks had always made her nervous , that she had always dreaded her visits to their crumbling , chaotic , downright shabby ancestral home , with dogs leaping out at one from every chair and all those things they kept on shooting — pheasant , partridge , grouse , poor little scrawny things — hanging up to rot simply everywhere . |
| 13 | THE RALLY started on Sunday , 2 February at 10 am and the freezing cold morning saw many last-minute checks by various crews on all those things they had forgotten or already checked three times . |
| 14 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 15 | A What about those things I asked you to bring ? |
| 16 | A What about those things I asked you to bring ? |
| 17 | ‘ Every time I sell one of those things I 'm committing a crime against humanity , ’ he had told him . |
| 18 | I make several lists , filtering out every stage those things I can , if pushed , do without — the aqualung , the white tie and tails , the Trivial Pursuits . |
| 19 | And all those things I said , I was just guessing really . |
| 20 | That did n't help the Black Destroyer , certainly , but it died because I made a mistake , and my power is so strong that when it goes wrong , which is seldom but not never , even those things I have invested with great protective power become vulnerable . |
| 21 | ‘ All those things I 've said to you . |
| 22 | I 've thought about it but erm it 's another one of those things I , I guess I keep putting off to the er a little bit later . |
| 23 | How anybody can walk in those things I do n't know of any . |
| 24 | Ordinary folk of the revolution should not have those things it had been decided . |
| 25 | ‘ He never talked much about those things he did , ’ I said . |
| 26 | Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said . |
| 27 | Nothing , except warnings about precisely those things he did n't want Katherine to think about . |
| 28 | Beside him , against the wall , he had placed those things he had seen himself use in the dream — a blanket and his old porcelain water-bottle . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's one of those things you silly young women get . ’ |
| 30 | Focus only on those things you fancy trying , at least at first . |