Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vi had heard about such things . |
| 2 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 3 | I 've never I 've never heard about this thing called cos squared X , you explain it to me what do what 's it all about ? |
| 4 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 5 | Besides those grants taken out of context or distorted , the endowment was blamed for many things it had nothing to do with . |
| 6 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 7 | Sometimes he is reminded of several things . |
| 8 | This thirst is a form of enthusiasm and implies a desire to discover all secrets , to become immersed in all things , and never to stop learning . |
| 9 | ‘ That probably sounds simple-minded to you , considering that you live surrounded by such things , but — ’ |
| 10 | I have heard of such things and met men who have been paid from such purses and eaten from such pots . |
| 11 | No one among the instructors or instructees at London 's trendy Pineapple Dance studios had heard of these things , or thought the idea would catch on . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , have n't you heard of these things ? |
| 13 | Waitress Joanne Stevenson , 22 , from Belfast , said : ‘ The Chinese have never heard of most things on the menu . |
| 14 | But then grandiose claims are made for most things you can buy connected with mountaineering . |
| 15 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 16 | I am not sure how far , without these visible or audible marks of strangeness , ‘ they ’ would be recognised by cultural differences , though in racist reactions much is made of such things : how good Frenchmen are insulted by the smells of North African cooking , or good Brits by that of curry emanating from their neighbours . |
| 17 | Use should be made of such things as plans of models , dress patterns , scale drawings , photographs , maps . |
| 18 | But in a court of law much could be made of these things . ’ |
| 19 | She had , and she felt slightly uneasy about admitting it , she had sought the smartly intense , at the expense of the more solid and dowdy virtues ; she had been attracted by surfaces , by clothes and manners and voices and trivial strange graces , and she had imitated what she had seen of these things in others . |
| 20 | In Berkeley 's Siris , for example — we know Coleridge was passing through a Berkeley phase as he named his second son , born in 1798 , alter him — we read that ‘ there is according to those philosophies ( Platonic and Stoic ) a life infused throughout all things ’ . |
| 21 | Health care can not be conveniently packaged and priced into such things as health problems of the ‘ elderly ’ or ‘ mentally ill ’ . |
| 22 | At that moment a strong sense of oneness is felt with all things because of our dependence on this power and our puniness and helplessness . |
| 23 | Understand the use of ratio as applied to such things as mixtures , e.g. 2 parts sand to 1 part cement ; and recipes , e.g. work out the quantities required for 6 people from a recipe which serves 4 . |
| 24 | ‘ One universal name is imposed on many things , for their similitude in some quality . ’ |
| 25 | It 's so important to be seen at these things and — I know it sounds very philistine — to show people that you have money . |
| 26 | The man claimed to have learnt self-control , temperance , and forbearance from his observations , and to have ‘ profited more to rule his passions in the rest of his life , than he had done by any thing that he had heard , or read before ’ . |
| 27 | These can be on the scale of several tens of kilotonnes — for example , the C4 and C5 steams which can be used for such things as petrol additives . |
| 28 | ‘ Even a mature product such as ‘ Diakon ’ offers scope for exciting new developments to extend its range of applications , ’ he says , ‘ We have recently introduced impact modified grades with improved toughness and craze resistance , which are being used for such things as food mixer bowls , blood filters and tooth-brush handles , and a research programme we are engaged in has produced acrylics with very much higher softening points — likely candidates for automotive head lamp lenses and other lighting applications . ’ |
| 29 | The doctor said to me , ‘ Have n't you been told about these things ? ’ then sat and explained it all to me . |
| 30 | My dad and I had talked about these things so rarely . |