Example sentences of "things [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them . |
2 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
3 | However , I have now been through the notebook you left with me and there are a few things I wish . |
4 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
5 | Look at all the things I 've done — I 'm not being choosy . |
6 | That 's one of the things I 've done , actually . ’ |
7 | There are some other things I want to do tonight . ’ |
8 | Have I got all the things I need to do this ? |
9 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
10 | Look , there 's lot of things I just ca n't handle . ’ |
11 | And he said the things I said were silly . |
12 | Raskolnikov is not with us either , but in the novel 's final text he could not have done or said any of the things I have just mentioned . |
13 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
14 | But in this rather frightening vision of the present and future , so have all the things I learnt to care about in eating : flavour , texture , invention , subtlety , companionship — and leisure , which marks the end of the working day and the use of time , not its gobbling . |
15 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
16 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
17 | There are certain things I wo n't do as a manager . |
18 | Yes , I do believe in trying to persuade people that the things I believe in are the things they should follow … |
19 | I would say many of the things I 've said strike a chord in the hearts of ordinary people . |
20 | One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions . |
21 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
22 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
23 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |
24 | There are two things I work on now . |
25 | One of the things I did n't like too much was the terrific hullabaloo the women made about menstruation , the way they would sit sighing in a corner and all the other women would make a fuss over them . |
26 | I told him I now knew many things I did n't know before . |
27 | She said ‘ there 'll be no cooking except the things I have to teach — things like cakes . |
28 | ‘ It happened quite slowly , so I did n't stop doing the things I had always done — apart from driving . |
29 | The things I like best about Marie are how she laughs and her hair . |
30 | I do n't get pocket money , my parents just get me things I need . |