Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] [adj] things " in BNC.

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1 I started off qua , er quarter of an hour so half ha , it was only one of these things that goes over the top .
2 It can be described as just one of these things .
3 ‘ That was just one of these things . ’
4 ‘ It 's just one of those things .
5 It 's just one of those things this society has suppressed , along with any other strong or extreme outburst of emotion .
6 ‘ It is just one of those things , ’ said Adams , attempting to shrug off the ultimate disappointment for a jump jockey .
7 There is , however , a widespread opinion that this is not the case , and that illness in old age is ‘ just one of those things to be put up with . ’
8 Grappelli 's swinging , fluid style seems at first to be leaving his young guitar/bass duo behind , however well before half-distance they are fully warmed-up ( say by Just one of those things ) and thenceforth come into their own with sympathetic accompaniment and youthful aplomb .
9 He was a bad lot and it was just one of those things .
10 It was just one of those things that you can not explain .
11 Clint : ‘ It 's just one of those things where the implications are good .
12 That 's just one of those things at London .
13 He added : ‘ It 's just one of those things . ’
14 ‘ It is just one of those things , ’ said Francis .
15 ‘ I did n't manage to get on last summer 's tour of Australia , but that was just one of those things .
16 ‘ It 's just one of those things , so try to remember what it 's like next time there 's a panic on , eh ?
17 It 's just one of those things .
18 Smith , the car 's owner , told magistrates at Eastbourne : ‘ It was just one of those things that happens after a few bevvies . ’
19 This is just one of those things . ’
20 Animosity is just one of those things .
21 ‘ The crash at Spa after Assen was just one of those things — a front wheel slide in the wet .
22 We just used to hang around with each other and it was just one of those things , like , that you 'd never done before .
23 It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out .
24 I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things
25 A single death should always be regarded as possible cause for concern , but unless further cases occur you can regard it as just one of those things .
26 But it 's just one of those things .
27 It 's just one of those things that happens at parties ; people do get drunk and they do do things they would n't normally think of .
28 Just one of those things . ’
29 Just one of those things . ’
30 So it 's just one of those things that you should know .
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