Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] thing you [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happy talking talking happy talk ba ba ba ba ba talk about things you 'd like to do . |
| 2 | A pair of pliers : Pliers are a real jack-of-all-trades tool — they 'll grip all sorts of things you may be trying to undo or tighten up , bend things like stiff wire or metal sheet , and crimp wires together if you 're doing any electrical work . |
| 3 | all sorts of things you can |
| 4 | The kind of thing you ought to do with with mum is like , you could probably go down one Sunday and have a , have a , you know , have a lunch . |
| 5 | Killing Elinor was the kind of thing you would need years of study to accomplish . |
| 6 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 7 | The kind of thing you might come out with after being hit with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 8 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 9 | That 's the kind of thing you can use as proof of ownership . |
| 10 | At the very least NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU 'D EXPECT FROM THE FARM . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , its anorexic attractions are exactly the kind of thing you 'd expect from people who only formed a band in the first place to get off the dole . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Well of course there 's a whole range of things you can order , you know , chequebooks and bank statements , you can do all s all sorts of things |
| 14 | Ross says that his team searched for ‘ the sort of things you would never find here , both to Britain 's credit and to my great sorrow ’ . |
| 15 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 16 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |
| 17 | Well , we get the usual sort of things you would expect , about fact and figures about the University itself . |
| 18 | These are the sort of things you might suggest that people give you for your birthday , Christmas or other religious celebration . |
| 19 | And there all sort of things you can just go in and get , is n't it there 's no bulk . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing you would do — to make yourself look big — to make me look a fool . |
| 21 | The great thing about library music is that it is fairly non-commital : you can go in all kinds of directions and you 're asked to provide music in a certain style , which may not be the sort of thing you would do naturally , but it 's still enjoyable to do . |
| 22 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 23 | ‘ It was not the sort of thing you would normally say but you can maybe understand his point of view . |
| 24 | not this sort of thing you would n't as I say |
| 25 | It is the sort of thing you ca n't explain to a child . ’ |
| 26 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose it 's the sort of thing you ought to have an inkling of . |
| 28 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 29 | It 's the sort of thing you might collect from the House of Commons particularly during a er big debate . |
| 30 | The sort of thing you might do was , if you 've got a decision , is you might want to look t at the of that decision , okay ? |