Example sentences of "[verb] thing [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfortunate phrasing of his sentence hardly made things sound any better . |
| 2 | I asked her what made people do things like that , and she told me that 99 per cent of men who 've been abused turn into abusers . |
| 3 | well , if they were interested in speaking to me I could probably put them on to not just myself but members of my flight , it is n't my flight it 's flight erm and there are several of us in Scotland who could come in and do things like that for a modest remuneration erm |
| 4 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 5 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ People do love seeing things go wrong , particularly if the unlucky ones are well known , ’ said producer Paul Lewis yesterday . |
| 7 | The magnification and objective diameter are usually spelled out in the name of the model of binoculars — eg : the Acme 8 × 35 Binocular will make things look eight times bigger and have an objective diameter of 35mm . |
| 8 | Anyway I said to our Pam well you have been brought up to do things like that and not only that if I found a pound on the floor I 'd pick it up that 's different . |
| 9 | There 's no sense in letting things become dull . ’ |
| 10 | How do things determine one another ? — and Poulantzas himself intensifies the difficulty by using these terms in an alarmingly general fashion . |
| 11 | Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired . |
| 12 | do things like that . |
| 13 | I mean if you do things like that while improving infrastructure , erm , setting up credit , government credit facilities , er , so , so , so we can lend , we could lend money to small farms . |
| 14 | Little boys always do things like that mummy . |
| 15 | Cos I 'm a bit worried we got ta get things sorted out so I rang I said I did n't to get onto you , she said no I know how they feel she said her granddad always do things like that . |
| 16 | Oh I do I sort of I do do things like that . |
| 17 | Because they do things like that at customs because they 're looking , they 're always looking for drugs and things that should n't come in . |
| 18 | It leaves it unsolved , but all right , given that our ancestors had this because they wanted to swim sinusoidally and eat , you know , filter feed and do things like that , we do n't swim sinusoidally and filter feed why on earth do we are we so conservative ? |
| 19 | The one machine is a series of linked pedals on a bar , so it tells you how to edge , how to unweight and do things like that . |
| 20 | And you do things like two lots of six makes twelve and six lots of two makes twelve . |
| 21 | ‘ People , who are grown-up , who do things like this to children , are wicked . |
| 22 | We do things like this because we have always done it that way . |
| 23 | I mean , how the devil did we let things get this way ? ’ |
| 24 | It does have the side-effect of making things feel stiffer and less responsive , though , and I 'd probably be inclined to leave this item off my own custom shopping list . |
| 25 | The true art of good football is making things look easy . |
| 26 | Of course , it ends up making things look worse for him — as if she was trying to cover his tracks . ’ |
| 27 | so you know at a pinch you could probably run it like that and I do n't suppose anybody would notice the difference but , you know , just in terms of you know making things look attractive |
| 28 | I have seen many , many enclosures all over the world where design , not animal welfare , has been the primary focus and thousands of dollars have been wasted on making things look pretty . |
| 29 | ‘ But the Store nomes never did things like that ! ’ said Masklin . |
| 30 | I did things like that . |