Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] other things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you find you can think about other things while doing your job ? ’ and ‘ Do you ever find the pace of the job too fast ? ’ |
| 2 | Thirty-six of the forty women said ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working ? ’ , and most of the women then went on to offer examples of topics they thought about . |
| 3 | ( Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working' ? ) |
| 4 | ( Do you find you can think about other things … ? ) |
| 5 | ( Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working ? ) |
| 6 | I 'm starting to write about other things , but I 'm being careful about writing political things 'cos it 's really easy to sound preachy or too self-righteous in a song . |
| 7 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
| 8 | But I was occupied with other things and in any event not then wholly convinced of Meehan 's innocence . |
| 9 | There are still many people who think ( perhaps a better word is ‘ hope ’ ! ) that a gyro can do all the work of controlling the tail and thus leave the pilot free to concentrate on other things . |
| 10 | For observers who find the pace of the SCAN analysis too demanding , or who wish to concentrate on other things , the coarse observation kit uses checklists which the observer fills in at the end of each short teaching episode . |
| 11 | I assume that it contains among other things the letters I have sent to him . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure I used to talk about other things , but I ca n't remember what . |
| 13 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 14 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 15 | They tried to talk of other things than murder and violence but there were too many reminders . |
| 16 | Even when he was writing of other things , there steals again and again into his verse the sea , the estuary , the fiat Suffolk coast , local meannesses , and an odour of brine and dirt — tempered occasionally with the scent of flowers . |
| 17 | The , the only thing that I would say Chairman is that erm planning and er er the role of planning is related amongst other things to development and every single solitary er element in development has an effect , maybe only small and it may be distant , but does have an effect on er water falling as rain and thereby on run-off . |
| 18 | Yes sir , on the erm first part erm in in clarification if I might sir the erm question of er briefing the Chairman is in fact dealt with in paragraph forty seven of annex C of P P G twelve although I 'm grateful for information on paragraph forty eight , erm and it says amongst other things that er there shall be a briefing and that briefing , the contents of that briefing shall be made public can I press the er spokesman for the environment committee to tell us er why in fact that was n't done and whether he thinks there can be prop proper public debate if it is n't done . |
| 19 | When someone eats a snack while mentally absorbed in other things — perhaps a mother grabbing her own meal in between attempts to coax food down a baby , or a viewer eating a TV snack while totally involved in the latest beastly plots of ‘ J.R . ’ |
| 20 | The human body is a reservoir of microorganisms as illustrated in Figure 6.5 and they are easily transferred to other things and people via the hands . |
| 21 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
| 22 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 23 | The complexity of the problem depends among other things on whether the species is a specialist feeder which eats only one or two types of prey , or whether it is an omnivore which eats many kinds of prey . |
| 24 | In fact , when the Labour Party did come to power in 1964 , the only documentation they possessed on this subject was a single sheet of paper provided by myself , recommending among other things the establishment of rent officers , an idea in which I was subsequently able to interest Dick Crossman . |
| 25 | You can catch sight of yourself looking at other things than your own reflection , wearing unselfconscious expressions of interest and curiosity . |
| 26 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 27 | The picture highlighted amongst other things the perceived role of the EPH , differences of opinion between members of staff about the value of existing information and the manner of communication , and the general consensus of opinion that the operation was a success if residents are happy ( shown as ‘ smiling faces ’ in the illustration ) . |
| 28 | Because production speed is important but flexibility more so ( the system has to be used for other things as well ) we adopted Aldus PageMaker as our standard layout package , we run it on both Macintosh and PC systems , and Word Perfect as our word processor . |
| 29 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |
| 30 | Once trained , they could be used for other things too . |