Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're always buying things for the home . |
| 2 | ‘ It was funny , people were always saying things about her , about how she 'd come to no good — ’ He stopped again . |
| 3 | Before I left school , the local papers were full of me , They were always saying things like ‘ This boy will go all the way to the top ’ and that , and I suppose you could say I took notice of the media . |
| 4 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 5 | erm you know , he 's possibly seeing things on television , sort of areas that he actually visited . |
| 6 | once it 's stuck in their head then it 's like reading things in the newspapers . |
| 7 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 8 | I was literally breaking things over my head . |
| 9 | Maisie was always doing things with her hair . |
| 10 | He was always saying things like this . |
| 11 | Amin was there muttering things about his shoe size , trying to give the impression that he was going home . |