Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] thing you " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of thing you might come out with after being hit with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 2 | Killing Elinor was the kind of thing you would need years of study to accomplish . |
| 3 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 4 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 5 | ‘ Some stupid party or other , all chat and standing up , the kind of thing you hate . |
| 6 | It 's the kind of thing you do n't think of until it actually happens to you . |
| 7 | At the very least NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU 'D EXPECT FROM THE FARM . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , its anorexic attractions are exactly the kind of thing you 'd expect from people who only formed a band in the first place to get off the dole . |
| 9 | Peter and Jay played the sort of music he disliked even more than he disliked rock , the kind of thing you associated with canned tunes in restaurants and supermarkets : ‘ La Vie en Rose ’ and ‘ Never on Sunday ’ and ‘ Un Homme et une Femme ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ The kind of thing you hope you never find living in the toe of your boot . ’ |
| 11 | It 's the kind of thing you liked doing when you were here . |
| 12 | ‘ But it 's the kind of thing you 're trying to push me towards . |
| 13 | The agency takes on any kind of job — you just name the subject and give us some indication of the kind of thing you want to know , and then we go out and get it for you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ This is just the kind of thing you waste months reconstructing under laboratory conditions — the difference in reaction between when you think you 're morally right , and when you think you 're factually right . |
| 15 | ‘ Is this the kind of thing you want , old thing ? ’ he enquired kindly , obviously feeling that she needed to be humoured . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 17 | What kind of thing you done ? ’ |
| 18 | Excel boasts a graph creating wizard , which guides you through graph creation , and turns out the kind of thing you see in the screenshots . |
| 19 | That 's the kind of thing you can use as proof of ownership . |
| 20 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 21 | Is that the kind of thing you meant ? |
| 22 | The kind of thing you ask yourself when you 've got a bad hangover . |
| 23 | This is the kind of thing you 've got to be looking for and thirty three percent off |
| 24 | What was the first kind of thing you got involved in ? |
| 25 | After explaining a benefit it is sound practice to ask the buyer ‘ Is this the kind of thing you are looking for ? ’ |
| 26 | That ca n't be the kind of thing you 're thinking of then ? |
| 27 | No no no he says , we get a lot of this kind of thing you know . |
| 28 | The kind of thing you ought to do with with mum is like , you could probably go down one Sunday and have a , have a , you know , have a lunch . |
| 29 | So in effect , if you write this long , long , rambling press release , you wo n't get over the point you were trying to do , you 'll get publicity okay , but you wo n't get the kind of thing you wanted . |
| 30 | It is not really a good idea to buy a few packets at random in the hope that these will be the type of thing you need . |