Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 2 | George knows Lennie ca n't and wo n't remember things so he is patient enough to repeat things for Lennie ; time and time again , day after day . |
| 3 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , they 're not usually powerful enough to change things by themselves , see . |
| 5 | Nothing ‘ happened ’ — but that was n't my fault and I do n't think much of a man who 's foul-mouthed enough to insinuate things about his own sister ! ’ |
| 6 | There is a general feeling that publishers are more inclined nowadays to do things by committee and the rule book , and that the flair that characterised the Kaye Webbs , Margaret Clarks and Judy Taylors of days gone by is not much in evidence . |