Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 2 | He has n't , got to wait for the things to come the , the bed and the car and er they have n't ordered a carpet yet |
| 3 | Not only had we increased our self-awareness , but we felt content , happy with ourselves and we 'd also received the encouragement to go for the things we want — to seize the day . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things . |
| 5 | Well how can it , because it , it , I think it 's got to go through the thing here , if you see what I mean , it , it , the chop you 'd have to push it through a little bit and then have a , |
| 6 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 7 | She did not think about the thing inside her now . |
| 8 | I suppose I can be civilised about the thing . " |
| 9 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 10 | So they 'll never know about the things Uncle Joe did to me … |
| 11 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 12 | In those few months my brain had become saturated with the things of my new life — even my mouth was full of RAF slang and jargon . |
| 13 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 14 | Do you try out new things , move on and try out something else if it is not successful , build on the things that go well ? |
| 15 | you know kind of build on , build on the criticism as it were and build on the things that people say could improve it erm |
| 16 | Coloured lights flickered across the Thing 's surface . |
| 17 | Stephen was felled by the things she knew . |
| 18 | thing for next year , but I mean she will be one of those caught by the thing saying we 're not going to do it anyway . |
| 19 | In other words if you , you 've been a teacher and you 're working in a school , you tend to talk about the things about your school that different from other schools , not about the things about your school that are the same , and that go on in all the other schools as well . |
| 20 | And are you still looking for the thing where you go and buy and you give a fiver and it 's worth |
| 21 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 22 | We all worry about the things we can not alter . |
| 23 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 24 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |
| 25 | it dus painted behind the things whatever , come on Sunday or whatever and just say that you might |
| 26 | It seemed like the thing to do . |
| 27 | ‘ Seemed like the thing to do . ’ |
| 28 | Up till now we have only considered the potential uses of the various desktop publishing products but it is important to look at what can be done with the things that they produce . |
| 29 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 30 | But the balance is a delicate one , for even the golfer , the competitor and the staff member may become ‘ caught up ’ and absorbed in the thing itself and enhancement of reputation may at least temporarily be held in abeyance . |