Example sentences of "[adj] thing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water was littered with obstacles , and there were painful things below the water to strike oneself on . |
| 2 | Erm old things from the Romans . |
| 3 | One of the exciting things about the erm introduction of this into schools is that we might actually begin to get , from a very early age , erm children clear about that the need to communicate their intentions , and that that 's what actually that 's what mathematics and similar formal systems has always been about . |
| 4 | I wanted to be an archaeologist and find exciting things in the mud . |
| 5 | One of the 18th century bylaws was ‘ that no person corrupt the town beck by letting into it stinking or hurtful water or washing unwholesome things in the same . ’ |
| 6 | You do n't have to try out new , risky things in the classroom . |
| 7 | I felt I had won several different things at the same time , including my war against the Portuguese Federation . |
| 8 | I felt two different things at the same time . |
| 9 | You will otherwise feel frustrated if you try to tackle different things at the same time . |
| 10 | Then , when they announced their engagement , love , marriage and a lifetime wedded to the monarchy meant very different things to the future King and Queen . |
| 11 | Moreover , terms such as nutritional therapy mean different things to the orthodox and to the alternative practitioner . |
| 12 | If the meaning of an utterance does not wholly reside in the semantic meaning , and if people can mean quite different things with the same words , how do human beings interpret — usually quite accurately — what is meant from what is said ? |
| 13 | You know I I tape all these different things off the C Ds . |
| 14 | It was these incredible , unique sights in the cave which made me enjoy my trip so much , though everyone gets different things from the sport . |
| 15 | Er were the boys taught different things from the girls in some subjects ? |
| 16 | Because we 're having this sort of interference from a central source , er , they 're actually handling in collating and all the information related to bids has been made throughout the whole of England , and it 's , it 's just too , too large to control , and it 's so unfair in the way that they will interpret different things from the remoteness of London , and I think it 's important that , to notice too , that the amount of monies that have gone into the Scottish regions since the im part of the E C prior to the E U , and it 's important to realize how much control they have actually have and how that money was dispersed . |
| 17 | ‘ You had to be able to play a lot of different things in the clubs or you 'd get killed ! |
| 18 | I have suffered cut fingers while being attacked when trying to see to different things in the tank . |
| 19 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 20 | You see there was milk cheap and different things after the war for them you see . |
| 21 | Sometimes collections are made by the teacher herself to introduce new and possibly unfamiliar things for the children to explore . |
| 22 | So that 's worth bearing in mind , and how you handle it , I mean maybe the press officer makes an arrangement to facilitate the the actual contact , but the press officer , a good press officer is not a person who stops the press getting into an organization , a good press officer is somebody who facilitates the press getting into the organization in the right way and talking to the right people preferably about the right things , but if not the right things the wrong things to the right with the right people , if you understand what I 'm saying . |
| 23 | ‘ I did all the wrong things for the best of reasons , ’ she whispered sadly . |
| 24 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought that one of the most interesting things about the Manson case was how they thought that The Beatles were talking to them , and that they thought The Beatles were the four horsemen of the apocalypse mentioned in the Bible . |
| 26 | One of the most interesting things about the recent history of curriculum development and in-service education and training is that most strategies owe more to argument than empirical evidence . |
| 27 | As we walked back , Silver told me many interesting things about the ships that we passed . |
| 28 | But it is one of the , is n't one of the other interesting things about the sponsorship the potential , the partnership and empowerment as |
| 29 | Although his brainwaves were doing some interesting things on the printouts , Dr Groome had monitored no major trauma . |
| 30 | It seemed cosy and welcoming , though suddenly red gingham — the same pattern as those tablecloths that had become beds and togas — did funny things in the region of her heart . |