Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] things [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Contrary to their story book image as big old friendly things they are very bad tempered . |
| 2 | some interesting things you can … |
| 3 | I know the sort of devious little things you get up to . |
| 4 | There are some other things I want to do tonight . ’ |
| 5 | And that 's why we tell them and there are some other things you tell them on the phone of course which you 'll find out about on the training school . |
| 6 | Because your friend can do some fantastic things it does n't mean to say your muscles will , you could be in trouble . |
| 7 | As a mere male , what can I do but worship , you 're all woman every bit of you , the funny silly things you say and do . |
| 8 | These beliefs not only explain to the ordinary language-user things she might have observed for herself , they also regulate linguistic behaviour . |
| 9 | It 's a tiny little things you know er in glass cases now there are a few at bus stops but a lot of people do n't use bus stops any more you know they drive erm I know that posters great hoardings that we some of us probably grew up with when everybody knew what was on and the great big posters everywhere . |
| 10 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
| 11 | Serene it means peaceful and calm , erm Treatment , you should , if you think back to your hypothermia , what are the very simple practical things you can do if you find a baby that you think , suspect 's got cold injury ? |
| 12 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 13 | The bank I pay cos there 's two or three different things I have to pay to the bank which they insist if you have a development loan you have to have this and you have to have that and that comes |
| 14 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 15 | Serious Maintenance is best left to the professionals but here are three simple things you can do for yourself . |
| 16 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 17 | It is just as well for him , therefore , that all the chicks , when they hatch , have firmly planted in their minds the notion that they must follow those two massive three-toed feet that are the first large moving things they see . |
| 18 | What we want to do in this session as I said it will only take about twenty minutes , there are three key things we want to do . |
| 19 | But in the excitement of discovering these wondrous things we shall be poorer if we do n't also give a thought now and again to the pear and the kitchen crock . |
| 20 | I wish they would n't have all these big things she said . |
| 21 | You know she 's doing the count down little red things she 's got that she swallows she 's down to five , I think it 's five . |
| 22 | I did n't have to do any of these crazy things they made me do . |
| 23 | Well on you these blue things they 're not really very nice are they ? |
| 24 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 25 | erm I would keep going so that , that does n't worry me but it was all these other things I was trying |
| 26 | There was caviare and smoked salmon and cold chicken ( he buys them ready-cooked somewhere ) — all things he knows I like — and a dozen other things he knows I like , the cunning brute . |
| 27 | So in summary the three main things I got out of yesterday were the structured thought patterns the playback and the audience contact . |
| 28 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 29 | I 've got all different things I do n't like these earphones they hurt my ears . |
| 30 | If you think of the variety of commercials you see on TV , there are many different things you can do in commercials : animation ; live action , used in perhaps the majority of commercials ; puppetry ; mixed live action and animation ; computer graphics and picture modification ; a variety of special effects . |