Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] things [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last October George Bush was asked to sign a bill that tried to restore things to the more liberal way they were between 1971 and 1989 . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to discuss things with the owner , and it will probably be a week or so before I make up my mind . |
| 3 | ‘ Norlite is terribly sorry and knows it has to do things to the letter in future . ’ |
| 4 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone on the Coptic side wants to keep things on the boil , wants to stop agreement from being reached . |
| 6 | I 'd have to try to influence things through the root cause of it all : Old Saul himself . |
| 7 | It 's a nice thing to know if you ever get tense , er decide that this is it , I 'll throw things Er well I do when I want to throw things at the kitchen and go away and you use aromatherapy . |
| 8 | He did n't really strike her as a particularly nosy person , just wanting to know things for the hell of it . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , the rich merchant was very powerful , and he came to control things in the city , and he made everybody do as he thought they ought to do ; snowball-throwing was made illegal , and children had to eat up all their food . |
| 10 | And it 's , I 'm going to do things for the house like I want to make erm Chris has put back the rail over my windowsill . |
| 11 | We 've got to do things in the morning . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , yes , I want to help to make things for the big bazaar Mr Sands was talking about , to help those who live here in such misery . ’ |
| 13 | erm there 's no doubt that our society , whatever kind of sentimental things it says about the status of the housewife , gives the housewife extremely low status , and that power and status and respect in society are accorded to people who achieve things in the work world occupationally outside the home , and given that that is so I think women , to increase their self respect , have got to achieve things outside the home , yes . |
| 14 | It is undeniable that animals intend to do things in the sense that it is often true of them that unless interfered with they will go on voluntarily to perform various actions . |
| 15 | How I like to do things in the old-fashioned way ? ’ |
| 16 | You usually like to keep things at the status quo , but today you could be willing to make a few changes . |
| 17 | He began to pack things into the picnic basket . |
| 18 | All burglars know that ninety-eight per cent of all housewives decide to hide things in the tea caddy . ’ |
| 19 | You ought to be strong enough by then to cope with the journey , and I can try to organise things at the hospital so that my assistants can cope . ’ |
| 20 | I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling . |
| 21 | What they would say is that we have to , perhaps we do have to leave things to the individual , but we should leave as little possible to individuals , as little as practically possible so that we should the people involved in making all the important decisions , particularly the carrying out of them that we have to leave to particular appointed individuals . |
| 22 | Yeah , but I do n't have to have things off the |
| 23 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 24 | I started to take things from the house as well , y'know , little things that I thought would n't be noticed . |
| 25 | It 's nice to know that the Man Utd fans still feel so inadequate as to have to post things to the Leeds newsgroup . |
| 26 | The parent should listen quietly to this opinion , preferably with an open mind , trying to see things from the youngster 's point of view and should restate what she or he understands to be the youngster 's argument , so as to be sure of there being no misunderstanding . |
| 27 | To make a living he had to sell things over the counter-like his brother . ’ |
| 28 | Trying to do things on the cheap only results in an inferior service . |
| 29 | However , I prefer to do things about the house out of the goodness of my heart rather than on request and consider making a little tut noise with the tip of my tongue behind my top teeth . |
| 30 | The family member will continue to do things for the primary sufferer ( providing food and shelter and other necessities of life , tidying up the messes , telling lies or half-truths to " cover up " , paying off debts or fines , providing bail , apologising on his or her behalf and generally doing everything possible to protect the primary sufferer from the consequences of his or her disease ) regardless of the demonstrable fact that these actions do not help the sufferer to get into recovery . |