Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] things [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to discuss things with the owner , and it will probably be a week or so before I make up my mind . |
| 2 | It 's a nice thing to know if you ever get tense , er decide that this is it , I 'll throw things Er well I do when I want to throw things at the kitchen and go away and you use aromatherapy . |
| 3 | It is undeniable that animals intend to do things in the sense that it is often true of them that unless interfered with they will go on voluntarily to perform various actions . |
| 4 | All burglars know that ninety-eight per cent of all housewives decide to hide things in the tea caddy . ’ |
| 5 | However , I prefer to do things about the house out of the goodness of my heart rather than on request and consider making a little tut noise with the tip of my tongue behind my top teeth . |
| 6 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 7 | It 's the ones that come along and just have to do things in the middle of the garden . |