Example sentences of "[verb] things [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could describe things like the difference between horses now and then , stuff that is virtually inaccessible . |
| 2 | A child screaming is expressing itself , or like those artists who daub things in the West — they say they are expressing themselves . ’ |
| 3 | While all this was going on , of course , Carol was flitting about the opposite side of the shop helping herself from the shelves and tossing things into the pushchair , which with the canopy zipped up was acting as an oversize shopping trolley . |
| 4 | But another quite plausible explanation presents itself : here was a lady whose role in life was changing , whose function as a mother and whose status — if we may call it that — as a widow were becoming things of the past . |
| 5 | Of course it does , we look at the guidance notes , and they say things like the police and the health authorities want erm , larger units the size of the present County Council , I 'm sorry to go on . |
| 6 | All burglars know that ninety-eight per cent of all housewives decide to hide things in the tea caddy . ’ |
| 7 | I can discuss things about the bike and because of his experience he knows immediately what I mean . |
| 8 | ‘ If they did discuss things on the coach , who were the likeliest people to eavesdrop ? |
| 9 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 10 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 11 | I knock things off the shelves . |
| 12 | She heard him moving about , checking things on the boat . |
| 13 | ‘ We created things like the farmhouse salad carts , using fresh produce , while everybody else was buying in the frozen varieties . |
| 14 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 15 | He did n't really strike her as a particularly nosy person , just wanting to know things for the hell of it . |
| 16 | But it does mean giving choices and explaining things to the child at the appropriate time . |
| 17 | I gather you have said things in the past which caused a breach of the peace ? ’ |
| 18 | Later in the present book there is a discussion of Roth 's regard for the literalism of Primo Levi , who is at his most imaginative when least imaginary , who was not all that successful at imagining things in the style commended in the Zuckerman letter : and in The Facts a related meaning is apparent . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to see and feel things in the house , but being a child I just took it for granted that everybody else was seeing and feeling the same things . |
| 20 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 21 | We certainly do not smell things in the way they do . |
| 22 | Well , what it 's all about is that er , the insurers have seen things on the telly etcetera and horrified with the result , |
| 23 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 24 | Perhaps you ‘ take control ’ and conduct things from the blackboard ; perhaps you ‘ let them keep working ’ , waiting for the bell to ring . |
| 25 | I do not think that the fact that consumer credit is at a high level is evidence that people are miserable — they have done things with the money that they have . |
| 26 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 27 | He has n't done things in the sort of , you know , the preferred way . |
| 28 | To make a living he had to sell things over the counter-like his brother . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd look a right idiot if we organize things on the basis that Vargas is on our side and I get there and he is n't . |
| 30 | Far better to draw them into the school to nip things in the bud than leave them to ferment discontent . |