Example sentences of "[verb] one [prep] the things " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might , what you got from Argos the other day , I might keep one of the things back for her birthday . |
| 2 | You know one of the things that we could do is to do another directory . |
| 3 | And I know one of the things I picked up off the course was it ? |
| 4 | You know one of the things he believed in ? |
| 5 | for example about , because you know one of the things that I 've thought about for quite a long time is the idea of encouraging voluntary organizations , concerned with the disability to get more interested in the arts and that 's obviously what Mecca is |
| 6 | I would n't mind appearing in , I 'd like you know one of the things I 'd really love to do is a er comedy . |
| 7 | I suppose one of the things about Neighbourhood Watch , if , if it worked properly , is that you , there 's a group of you with a common interest , and you could deal with a situation like that a bit better than you could if you were on your own . |
| 8 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 9 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 10 | Revenge , in fact , is the key to all these movies , and also pinpoints one of the things that makes The Accused so different . |
| 11 | Also , I mean one of the things that the Council is considering doing , I mean this interest , I know that other people from around this area come into Harlow , one of the things that the Council 's thinking about is erm , is charging , or has debated , charging different rates for people who are coming in than , than those who live here . |
| 12 | I mean one of the things I was taught when i my training for work with children , was that erm , it 's alright to use big l long words , for children , as long as you explain to them what the words mean . |
| 13 | A little tip for you I mean one of the things I do when I 'm writing a training manual or something like that , I will actually write my open questions in really bold letters on the script . |
| 14 | I mean I must be honest , I did not feel that frightened erm it was n't an acute pain that that I mean I mean one of the things that one has to realize , you can become a heart attack bore . |
| 15 | Yes , but one I mean one of the things that I think is often smuggled in to discussions of class is value judgements erm along the lines of one class is better than another . |
| 16 | Dot remembered one of the things she 'd overheard Mrs Hollidaye telling Gloria just before Loopy Lil crashed the tray . |
| 17 | Rodriguez must have scragged one of the things ! |
| 18 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
| 19 | ‘ I have a lot in common with the people who watch the show , and I think one of the things which has made me popular — even at the start , when I was n't very good , when I was nervous — was that people could really relate to this unsettled black guy on television . |
| 20 | And I think one of the things we can — let's go out for a walk . |
| 21 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 22 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 23 | I think one of the things that has to be addressed is not " who does this belong to ? " but " what is the basis for a common approach ? " so that we can get a common assessment policy so that we can get reassessment whenever it 's required , so that we can get packages of care devised that are appropriate to the needs of people and so on . |
| 24 | I think one of the things we need to look at when we look at case loads is whether Gail is the appropriate person to be dealing with the college ? |
| 25 | not sure but I think one of the things is |
| 26 | I think one of the things is of course to try and use the placement to sort of check out for yourself erm perhaps what sort of group you want to be working with in |
| 27 | and , and what do you do about it , you know whe when they er y you know , I mean , I mean I think one of the things is you , you can start off erm you know very open and so on , but if you 're not careful y y you actually take on responsibility for them you know in a , in a way which is actually not helpful to them and is probably very bad for you |
| 28 | I think one of the things , to be honest is to avoid the traffic . |
| 29 | Right I think one of the things we 'll be looking at tomorrow is learning styles and people 's preferred learning styles and what we 'll find is that people in this room you 'll all , you might have a slightly different way that you prefer to learn . |
| 30 | I think one of the things the American companies often do is that , rather than set up on a green field site , they often buy into an existing company , erm , and therefore it 's , it 's , it 's a , it 's a somewhat different form of investment to the |