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 | I know the sort of devious little things you get up to . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These beliefs not only explain to the ordinary language-user things she might have observed for herself , they also regulate linguistic behaviour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There are a great many things we have to do today , ’ he added over his shoulder . |
| 12 | ‘ If I told you that you had a good many things I am interested in ? ’ |
| 13 | It 's all the vile unspeakable things he could do . |
| 14 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 15 | The only good things you can say about some of these new series , like Matthew Carter 's Cochin in fact that he did for Linotype are these other weights . |
| 16 | And the only big things you get are dogs . |
| 17 | How we do it and the various other things we do are n't exactly what we 're paid for but they become part of the job . |
| 18 | you know they might as well go to the toilet at the same time and all this sort of stuff and yet a little bit of information about that , how long does it take to put together ? and various other things you know where 's the staff manual kept I mean when I joined , I did n't know purchase and this sort of stuff . |
| 19 | The only other things she had were guesses and suppositions . |
| 20 | Nicish young things they are . |
| 21 | Well I would 've called what I did in bloody Austria eighteen months ago physical it knackered me more than many other bloody things I did , like crawling up bloody hills and Mind you it 's just as enjoyable . |
| 22 | Maria jeered caustically , driven partly by masochism but also by a need to lash out as she realised that in addition to all the other contemptible things he believed of her , he was now also convinced that she was a liar . |
| 23 | ‘ I was n't there , ’ Maria confirmed , but she found she was having to force the resentment now , needing to remind herself — and him — of all the other lesser things she had lost as well . |
| 24 | I did n't want to be sarcastic and aggressive , because there were certain basic things I wanted to know , but I ended up saying , ‘ That must be nice for you . ’ |
| 25 | She recalled all the other outrageous things she had called him . |
| 26 | Like most other living things he had not slept during the night . |
| 27 | People moving in , this was in the medical practice , people moving in new er new er new first things you do is register with a doctor . |
| 28 | And the other two things I could mention at this point is that erm this activity , this useful time-structured activity , brings you into contact with other people . |
| 29 | Not just the songs and what they mean to people , but all the silly little things we 've done , like playing for no money so someone else could have some — and selling T-shirts for less money than we could have . ’ |
| 30 | Chris believes in teaching children about snakes , showing them that they are n't the horrible slimy things they 're sometimes portrayed as . |