Example sentences of "[det] [adj] things [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | some interesting things you can … |
| 2 | There are some other things I want to do tonight . ’ |
| 3 | And that 's why we tell them and there are some other things you tell them on the phone of course which you 'll find out about on the training school . |
| 4 | Because your friend can do some fantastic things it does n't mean to say your muscles will , you could be in trouble . |
| 5 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 6 | But in the excitement of discovering these wondrous things we shall be poorer if we do n't also give a thought now and again to the pear and the kitchen crock . |
| 7 | I wish they would n't have all these big things she said . |
| 8 | I did n't have to do any of these crazy things they made me do . |
| 9 | Well on you these blue things they 're not really very nice are they ? |
| 10 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 11 | erm I would keep going so that , that does n't worry me but it was all these other things I was trying |
| 12 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 13 | I 've got all different things I do n't like these earphones they hurt my ears . |
| 14 | If you think of the variety of commercials you see on TV , there are many different things you can do in commercials : animation ; live action , used in perhaps the majority of commercials ; puppetry ; mixed live action and animation ; computer graphics and picture modification ; a variety of special effects . |
| 15 | It 's like all these things they say when you go to the vet and that . |
| 16 | But with all these things I prepared and waited , prepared and waited until I had the orchestra really in hand . |
| 17 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 18 | Er you say , well you know alright there are all these things I could do but erm er what , where do I think I re really want to work ? |
| 19 | All these things I can do , to prevent death . |
| 20 | And , a all these things I thought were so difficult ! |
| 21 | In all these things you have to wait ten or fifteen years . |
| 22 | All these things you can do by yourself , but at the same time you will be making some sort of social contact . |
| 23 | You see that 's what I 'm trying to do because you 're getting older now , you can remember all these things you can remember all these things What 's the question there ? |
| 24 | All these things you have done . |
| 25 | You know , and I mean we we work , you know , it 's like er I mean I have to pay full poll tax and all these type of things too , even though my husband 's on a sort of very er basic sort of wage , and I pay all these things you know . |
| 26 | ‘ Who do you think might be responsible for all these things you ca n't explain ? |
| 27 | Like all these things you have to look at the bright side . |
| 28 | It was a tray , a black plastic garden seed tray that we call a finds tray , and all then things he was finding he was putting them in there . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember the many stupid things they have created . |
| 30 | And she was bound to confess that the Larks had always made her nervous , that she had always dreaded her visits to their crumbling , chaotic , downright shabby ancestral home , with dogs leaping out at one from every chair and all those things they kept on shooting — pheasant , partridge , grouse , poor little scrawny things — hanging up to rot simply everywhere . |