Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 2 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |
| 3 | Love for another is one of the main derivatives of this awareness of difference ( two bodies in different skins ) and the accompanying gratitude when good things are provided : ‘ I love you because you are my mother and give me the good things I need . ’ |
| 4 | He 's the one who taught in Ohio me the important things I needed to know about being a man . ’ |
| 5 | More than , Marenches said later that the Shah had told him , " I count on you always to tell me the disagreeable things that other people wo n't say . |
| 6 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 7 | Telling me the strangest things sometimes , evil things — till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces . |
| 8 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 9 | Keep them out of the way , take them through the ugliest country you can find , confess them the miserable things they are , and spend nothing on them but for safety and speed … |
| 10 | Just wan na call them the same things as you 're used to . |
| 11 | And he said you 'll be able to go round the roundabout then I the flaming things ! |
| 12 | If Hume 's argument proves anything , it is just this : that the assumption of identity can not be explained in terms of the conditions under which the empirical things of the common sense world are re-identified ; in particular , it can not be explained in terms of similarities between perceptions and ideas . |
| 13 | The pagan philosophers have introduced cycles of time in which the same things are in the order of nature being restored and repeated , and have asserted that these whirlings of past and future ages will go on unceasingly … . |
| 14 | Even then , such assessment as there was was lost in Burgessian rhetoric : ‘ Mr Motion does all he can to chronicle those years and years of world without event , in which the interesting things happened in trousers , in pubs , and on paper … |
| 15 | So , slowly , Creggan came to learn the routine and the lore of the Zoo and , without realizing it , to let his world , which had once been so wide and full of hope and freedom , close in and grow small ; a place in which the trivial things like the way Woil talked to the Men , or where the vultures were , were more important than flight , freedom , the sky and the winds they were banned from . |
| 16 | It is all too easy to get people who will tell you the nice things , and after all there is not a lot that you can do about that , but those who will stand up without fear or favour and tell you , hopefully tactfully , that things are not really the way that everybody else thinks they are pearls beyond price . |
| 17 | I have to tell you the terrible things I thought about you when I stumbled into that nursery , part of the rooms you had locked away from me . |
| 18 | Viva gives you the basic things too . |
| 19 | Ask you a few things . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she began , taking up her basket . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she said , glancing back to where her basket stood on the floor . |
| 22 | That would tell you a few things . |
| 23 | He says to her aye , he says , I could tell you a few things about Fiona that 'll make your hair curl . |
| 24 | I want you to tell me a few things and then I 'll let you go back to sleep , all right ? ’ |
| 25 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 26 | Michel 's told me a few things about himself ; he comes from a family of lawyers and administrators . |
| 27 | Erm no , he does help me a few things but I do all the digging for him because he ca n't bend down too much . |
| 28 | yeah , you know and I 'm taking them a few things . |
| 29 | This is what he hoped for , and one the many things that tended to dispirit him was the fact that it was so little forthcoming . |
| 30 | She gave him a few things , all invented , and watched as he jotted some notes in the ledger . |