Example sentences of "thing in [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got very expensive things in me . |
| 2 | He needed all those things in me for which you had no use , pity , indulgence , even forgiveness . |
| 3 | I can do all things in him who strengthens me . |
| 4 | ‘ I can do all things in him who strengthens me . ’ |
| 5 | Poems are more plausibly referred to as works of art than novels ; the latter may have obviously aesthetic qualities , but have many other things in them as well . |
| 6 | Not that Europeans are actually in evidence , but there are shops , lots of shops , shops with things in them : clothes , records . |
| 7 | Now they are , because there 're two things in them , they 're quite strong . |
| 8 | Well I think it 's been awful interesting to see the pictures develop and like they 're so rough at first and they 're and more developed and they 're more things in them and the colours are getting more definite and everything . |
| 9 | Got things in them . |
| 10 | Yes , the bottom drawer is half full and you can put things in them , alright ? |
| 11 | ‘ A couple of interviews this morning , and I met Penny Seu Chen this afternoon and she showed me round our building , studios and offices , and we rearranged a few things in mine . |
| 12 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The vegetable patch was hers and all the things in it had been grown by her loving hand without the help of a single gardener . |
| 14 | ‘ It had little sensible inexpensive things in it — a folding coat-hanger and something to put on one 's face … . |
| 15 | ‘ Natural Beauty ’ is about survival in nature in general and survival in any situation really , there 's many things in it . |
| 16 | if you question you might actually find that there 's some good thing or , or at least the people might find that there 's some good things in it so it 's then er it becomes more of a threat then to the capitalist world |
| 17 | Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came : |
| 18 | Even if it had maggots and things in it and it was all horrible ? ’ |
| 19 | There were normal things in it ; there were chairs and a table , on the table was a water jug , a bowl of food of some kind , fruit . |
| 20 | Two of the best-remembered things in it are Emma 's adulterous drive in the curtained cab ( a passage found especially scandalous by right-thinkers ) , and the very last line of the novel — ‘ He has just received the Legion of Honour ’ — which confirms the bourgeois apotheosis of the pharmacist Homais . |
| 21 | The flat was shared and many of the things in it did not belong to the suspect so the search was complicated . |
| 22 | I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical . |
| 23 | This room was smaller than the hall , but I could see many unusual and interesting things in it . |
| 24 | They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it . |
| 25 | Her father could not possibly have owned a house like this , nor could he have owned half the things in it . |
| 26 | He had read and enjoyed her diary though there were things in it that he was sure he had not known at fourteen and that he felt , uneasily , were not quite suitable for her to know . |
| 27 | Bush said that although " there are some things in it I had to gag and digest " , he would sign it " because for the first time it makes significant and long-term cuts in federal spending that should have a positive impact on America 's economic future " . |
| 28 | I tell you what you can get for it you can have erm a make-up bag with a string of pearls in they 're not real one you can have er more of that moist erm tissue stuff er a bag with sweetener things in it there 's er a video about a Biggin Air Show and loads of marshmallows too for Kids ' County number two here 's the clues , It 's got barbed wire around it its made of wood it 's long . |
| 29 | The trouble with having an open mind , of course , is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it . |
| 30 | I can see all sorts of things in it , advantages . |