Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] these things " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get to know about these things at an early age you lose your shame and shyness . |
| 2 | How to get to know about these things . |
| 3 | Yet Leapor is able to write of these things with good humour and to maintain a quiet hope . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's really not professional of me to comment on these things . |
| 5 | It 's no it 's crap erm Petie Peter Peter Are we supposed to talk about these things while we 've got them on because I do . |
| 6 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 7 | But it 's horrid to dwell on these things where the central effort and basic attitude is so right minded . |
| 8 | So I immediately started to look into these things , which are personal attack alarms and it is a very basic er deterrent value . |
| 9 | if you float you 'll stay at the top , some people can float and they do n't need arm bands , they stay at the top and if you sink they go to the bottom , now we 've got to look at these things look and we 've got to decide whether we think they 're gon na float , stay on the top or whether they 're going to sink and go to the bottom , now then what 's this here ? |
| 10 | You realize , of course , that we have to go into these things — no details at this stage ; we can get them later from his bank and his lawyer ; just the overall picture . |
| 11 | Yeah and I I asked the question not too much from the Green Party point of view as from a personal point view as I I would like to know what my Government is saying to do about these things . |
| 12 | ( v ) gave money or goods or services to the addict in your life when you could not really afford to part with these things . |
| 13 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 14 | The Soviets said to Greenspan , ‘ Look , you 're an expert in currency matters , and would n't it be interesting for us to chat about these things ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It is dangerous to joke about these things . ’ |
| 16 | And then there 's this big thing about artistic separation ; you 're allowed to sing about these things in a completely gratuitous manner because you 're a singer in a group and you can just stand back from it . |
| 17 | The woman ought not to lie about these things , or how will men ever learn ? |
| 18 | Recent surveys have suggested that parents want their children to learn about these things at school , and from quite an early age . |
| 19 | And we kept saying , ‘ You have to pay for these things ’ . |
| 20 | An actress has to think about these things . ’ |
| 21 | However , it is always good practice to think about these things first so that you are prepared . |
| 22 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 23 | Got to think about these things you know . |
| 24 | Try not to think about these things . |
| 25 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 26 | " When you 've finished saying all that you want to say about these things , though , do you feel that you 've come to any definite conclusion ? " |
| 27 | It 's always hard to tell with these things , ’ he finished gloomily . |
| 28 | Now of course I 'm not supposed to admit to these things , being a professional , bo b before I do admit it them as I am going to I have to say that er on an average year er year we do about one thousand five hundred jobs and in that time there will probably be about three or four claimable accidents that we 'll have . |