Example sentences of "[prep] thing [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He warned : ‘ Once somebody gets hooked on this sort of thing they may step it up . |
| 3 | No , and if they do that sort of thing they can charge the earth for it |
| 4 | In fact they pay for the sort of thing they used to skive out of when they were at school . ’ |
| 5 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 6 | And it 's the sort of thing they could do . |
| 7 | It 's a , it 's a sort of thing they could do . |
| 8 | But it 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , it sounds rather like the tone of a flat-out , old Fender Champ — not the kind of thing they 'd like to hear down at your local C&W club ! |
| 10 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 11 | I mean in summary , I , I 'd say that this is the sort of thing they 'd look for in a , in a portfolio . |
| 12 | This is n't the kind of thing we 'd want to see in the minutes , is it ? ’ |
| 13 | We 've got a weight array which is the normal sort of thing we 'd have . |
| 14 | If you could buy those that sort of thing we 'd make good money with it er non-working . |
| 15 | That 's the sort of thing we should have is n't it . |
| 16 | once and we said , Ah well we can see the sort of thing we should be working it sh |
| 17 | Had we known about it because this is the sort of thing we could of gone |
| 18 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 19 | For her earlier years , there are the famous Ronsard poems extolling her charm and beauty , along with those in similar vein by the man who was to become her most vicious detractor , the great Scottish scholar George Buchanan — exactly the kind of thing which would naturally be written about an attractive young queen . |
| 20 | It is the sort of thing which would happen only if the person was in some unusual condition , such as a fever . |
| 21 | It seems reasonable , however , to distinguish between two different types of thing which might or would have happened if the agent had not done an action . |
| 22 | It 's not a great competition-winning portrait , but er certainly , it 's fine , sort of family album stuff and the sort of thing which 'll be in the family for many , many years to come . |
| 23 | Recently , I had cause to telephone the factory in pursuit of another non-standard modification — the sort of thing which can be a real pain when you have two new model lines to get into production . |
| 24 | I did hear of some people who had trouble getting tickets and that there was a delay in receiving them — some apparently not arriving until the week or even the day before the start but that is the sort of thing which can be learnt from and things will improve on future all-ticket matches . |
| 25 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 26 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 27 | She had wet her drawers , which was the kind of thing one would never mention to Mama . |
| 28 | It was n't the sort of thing he would have put on the wall next to his bed but it was a lot more acceptable than Mr Pilkington in a black cowl . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not the sort of thing he would buy , is it ? ’ |
| 30 | He pointed out that he had originally wanted Robert Bolt , but his secretary said it was not the sort of thing he would do . |