Example sentences of "[adj] thing in [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ A couple of interviews this morning , and I met Penny Seu Chen this afternoon and she showed me round our building , studios and offices , and we rearranged a few things in mine . |
| 2 | Bush said that although " there are some things in it I had to gag and digest " , he would sign it " because for the first time it makes significant and long-term cuts in federal spending that should have a positive impact on America 's economic future " . |
| 3 | This packet takes a certain amount of restraint , because it , it holds a lot of different things in it . |
| 4 | Well you can keep different things in it now than you could n't before . |
| 5 | This room was smaller than the hall , but I could see many unusual and interesting things in it . |
| 6 | I could be wrong , but I do n't think he has the real thing in him . |
| 7 | They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it . |
| 8 | ‘ The most obvious thing in mine may be that I like to work with numbers , but if I 've an urge to be an innovator too , I probably wo n't make a successful auditor . |
| 9 | There were normal things in it ; there were chairs and a table , on the table was a water jug , a bowl of food of some kind , fruit . |
| 10 | Two of the best-remembered things in it are Emma 's adulterous drive in the curtained cab ( a passage found especially scandalous by right-thinkers ) , and the very last line of the novel — ‘ He has just received the Legion of Honour ’ — which confirms the bourgeois apotheosis of the pharmacist Homais . |
| 11 | if you question you might actually find that there 's some good thing or , or at least the people might find that there 's some good things in it so it 's then er it becomes more of a threat then to the capitalist world |
| 12 | But the money is n't there to do the proper job , it 's a , if the money was there to do the proper job , I 'd say great let's go ahead and do it , but in policy or principle it 's a wonder there 's a lot good things in it , but there is n't the money to do it . |
| 13 | As far as the actual steps are concerned I say the on the on the one that you missed out was the tentative benefits statement , that got lost out because of erm tt the red herring that he threw in about why so long , but it do you know it does highlight that we 've got ta try and get back on to it but oth you know , there was a lot of good things in it . |
| 14 | I can do all things in him who strengthens me . |
| 15 | ‘ I can do all things in him who strengthens me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Natural Beauty ’ is about survival in nature in general and survival in any situation really , there 's many things in it . |
| 17 | There are so many things in it that are good . |
| 18 | He needed all those things in me for which you had no use , pity , indulgence , even forgiveness . |
| 19 | Well I think it 's been awful interesting to see the pictures develop and like they 're so rough at first and they 're and more developed and they 're more things in them and the colours are getting more definite and everything . |
| 20 | it 's to small for one thing in it to pick up ? |
| 21 | And Minton , like Hopkin , traduced by myth , may likewise have begun to feel by the end of his life that this was the only thing in him , too , that remained inviolate . |
| 22 | ‘ You ai n't sticking that thing in me ! |
| 23 | Well if that boy 's bringing that thing in we 'll have |
| 24 | He saw the house as it had once been , in his childhood — still , ordered , each thing in it the finest and most beautiful example of its kind . |
| 25 | As a result there 's some lumpy things in it and actually erm and the old foundries are the same way in the commercial . |
| 26 | The only legible thing in it was the peremptory note about when it was required . |
| 27 | Now they are , because there 're two things in them , they 're quite strong . |
| 28 | Poems are more plausibly referred to as works of art than novels ; the latter may have obviously aesthetic qualities , but have many other things in them as well . |
| 29 | I 've got very expensive things in me . |
| 30 | It is a common experience in reading that you read something , then try to write about it ; writing about it gives you new ideas , and so when you read the original again you find new things in it because of the new ideas you have brought to it . |