Example sentences of "[verb] things [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but bearing in mind erm , point there as well , you 'd also need things like Cover Master Living Insurance , to give a lump sum if the client , if that person died |
| 2 | Then they could have sex on a tiger skin by an open fire ; actresses always owned things like tiger skins . |
| 3 | Yes and you know bedroom say things like cunt cos your mum is n't very |
| 4 | If we 're just talking about the niceties of the way these things are laid out , previous set of procedures say things like page one-o-two , page one-o-three etc , and I think that is probably good practice if you can look at a page number and so you know exactly how many pages to expect so , we can probably do that when we re-issue these procedures as well . |
| 5 | Also what opportunities are there for people to have fun , to keep physically fit , to play games or to discover things of interest ? |
| 6 | ‘ Let's get this weekend over and then we 'll discuss things in detail , ’ Vitor cut in impatiently . |
| 7 | ‘ There are a lot of pretty well-off farmers round our way , driving things like Range Rovers , ’ she says . |
| 8 | This feature is also useful for keeping things in view when you 're on unsteady ground . |
| 9 | If you look at the revised mid-year estimate , the figure there if we 're keeping things in balance between county and and Leeds , is six thousand two hundred and fifty , net out migration . |
| 10 | So there 's if we 're keeping things in balance , there 's three thousand people per five year period , got to go somewhere . |
| 11 | KEEPING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE |
| 12 | I simply phoned them and erm they put , they put it up so that I could buy things on Access that I could get , well I mean those were the days when I knew that you could sell a house like |
| 13 | It had played no small part in tranquillizing things at home and inspiring ‘ national will to victory ’ , and that was earnestly acknowledged by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 14 | It is not difficult to derive more information from the basic recorded information by combining two or more parameters , and thus to establish things like rate of climb or descent and rate of change of airspeed . |
| 15 | He argues that while the monolithic kernel maybe be sufficient for most of today 's operating system requirements , a micro-kernel incorporates things like replication and fault resilience , which standard systems software does n't embrace . |
| 16 | The thing is I 've omitted I 've omitted things like sin |
| 17 | But it 's bring , it says things about care and assessing that quality care 's being met on their ward and the hospital itself and about once every six months to meet up with |
| 18 | ‘ We have to open things to discussion . |
| 19 | So , erm have you got , do you have a lot of friends through work do you find , I mean do you sort of organize things after work , do you ever go for a drink ? |
| 20 | We talked for a while , and then my parents , surprisingly tactfully , murmured things about shopping and left me and Anna sitting at the little round table , under the blue umbrella . |
| 21 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |
| 22 | The results , however , can be well worth the effort , and it will all come that much easier if you have prepared things in advance . |
| 23 | Was n't it Mr. Justice Cocklecarrot ( or was it Mr. Justice Wool ? ) in Misleading Cases in the Common Law who observed sternly to that persistent litigant , Mr. Haddock , ‘ People must not do things for fun . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |
| 25 | Because they can do things with language … |
| 26 | They could do things by thumb and come out within a thou . |
| 27 | And there are the future situations I sit on the bed here and think about : my utter love for some man ; I know I ca n't do things like love by halves , I know I have love pent up in me , I shall throw myself away , lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who 'll betray me . |
| 28 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 29 | He was suspicious of the local people , and when any of them showed up he always put things of value out of sight . |
| 30 | ‘ I walked away and put things on hold for a couple of years but now I am committed to getting that shirt , ’ he added . |