Example sentences of "[verb] thing [vb infin] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | do things like that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Little boys always do things like that mummy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Oh I do I sort of I do do things like that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ People , who are grown-up , who do things like this to children , are wicked . |
| 16 | We do things like this because we have always done it that way . |
| 17 | I mean , how the devil did we let things get this way ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But the Store nomes never did things like that ! ’ said Masklin . |
| 19 | I did things like that . |
| 20 | Did things like this happen ? |
| 21 | stupid he does things like that . |