Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they came to a working arrangement with her — ‘ and the price they exacted from her was this up-front crusading thing about AIDS . ’ |
| 2 | It merely petrifies things for those who go on living . |
| 3 | ‘ He only needs things to be left in the same place so he can find them and he 's fine , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Nothing ‘ happened ’ — but that was n't my fault and I do n't think much of a man who 's foul-mouthed enough to insinuate things about his own sister ! ’ |
| 5 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 6 | Erm it , again if you 'd only do things like jogging it will build up , if you 've got the right conditions , your heart y y your heart and lung ability , but in order to have this stamina that we 're talking about you 've got to have power . |
| 7 | As long as we 've got that and peace of mind we can perhaps do things outside of what money can bring you . |
| 8 | Like , how do you know what goes on , like with , dolphins , with whales , with all sorts of species of animals , like we do n't know , well we 're so dense we can only see things like this ! |
| 9 | There were lesbians on the staff at my school , but they only taught things like hockey and sewing . |
| 10 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 11 | I was literally breaking things over my head . |
| 12 | so having things like division by a matrix , when the matrix happens to be zero . |
| 13 | It is applied by adults who read a wide variety of material with a wide variety of ‘ value ’ ( the newspaper headlines , a new best-selling novel , the horoscope for the day , financial annual reports , personality gossip , a Jane Austen novel , holiday brochures to exotic places , hints on cooking rice ) but feel that children should only read things of lasting value and of clearly-identified worth . |
| 14 | George knows Lennie ca n't and wo n't remember things so he is patient enough to repeat things for Lennie ; time and time again , day after day . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , they 're not usually powerful enough to change things by themselves , see . |
| 16 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |
| 17 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 18 | It is not difficult to derive more information from the basic recorded information by combining two or more parameters , and thus to establish things like rate of climb or descent and rate of change of airspeed . |
| 19 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 20 | You ca n't just do things like that , on a whim . ’ |
| 21 | They think we are people who just put things in envelopes — there is a certain snobbery about it . ’ |
| 22 | A , a big pond and used for watering erm the cattle and erm then it silted up and erm got neglected and people naturally just threw things into it . |
| 23 | ‘ Like all hospitals , we do n't have as much money as we would like but generally speaking things for us have been getting better , ’ she said . |
| 24 | ‘ We learn by just popping things in and seeing how they do . ’ |
| 25 | But Gran was n't giving anything away , just saying things like ‘ Aye ’ and ‘ Aye , well ’ , and ‘ Not so bad ’ . |
| 26 | Where you know I would just take things in my stride . |
| 27 | I found myself just doing things without even thinking about them — my fingers seemed to work away on their own . |
| 28 | Much of the initial cost of setting up the campaign was covered either by various committee members somehow doing things for free or came from the remainder of the money raised at the Comedy Store . |
| 29 | Well you just keep things like that to yourself . |
| 30 | How pleased Mama would be ! — and she no longer took things for granted as she once had . |