Example sentences of "[prep] thing [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what you must do , if you get , if you write a lot about a couple of things they 'll say erm this chap 's knowledge is pretty specialized on this area , you know what , what these er short answer questions are picking up right is your , is your general knowledge . |
| 2 | There are lots of things they could do . |
| 3 | that this will happen , people will come to us occasionally and say , do you need money for what specific and I think , as a committee we must have a future , a list for the future of things we might want and also of ideas we have . |
| 4 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |
| 5 | for I was always keeping up my sleeve for sort of things we might do as opposed to R and M U have done |
| 6 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 7 | Being an excitable sort of race there is an incredible number of things we would like to show you . |
| 8 | These are the sort of things we 'd say to a good person in a formal situation , erm , you 're reliable , trustworthy , you know , we can rely on you to do a good job for us , doing your job well and with enthusiasm , when left in charge there 's been no problems , you 're responsible and flexible , you 're conscientious , I can trust you for , to do a good job and thank you for your contribution to the team . |
| 9 | All this has been , so to speak , a mere preliminary to the central act of a murder story , the murder , and there are a number of things we should consider about this murder and the murderer . |
| 10 | And there must be heaps of things we could do . |
| 11 | ‘ There were loads of things we could have done in Madness that we did n't do because we were too young or whatever , ’ explains the singer . |
| 12 | ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing . |
| 13 | But an awful lot of things we can control by volunt voluntary movement , our arms and legs and so on , and we can control our thoughts . |
| 14 | I said , to test him , ‘ There 's lots of things we can do . |
| 15 | There are a number of things we can do to try to prevent these problems : |
| 16 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 17 | Sort of things we can tick off as we need them . |
| 18 | At that time there will be a number of things we will disclose to clarify how USL will be structured to assure the continuation of a business model that provides vendor-neutrality and equal access to the Unix Operating System , as well as other technologies . |
| 19 | Blake was not averse to entering such places , but could think of a number of things he 'd prefer to do at this time . |
| 20 | Bits and pieces of things he 'd read and heard were coming together . |
| 21 | McNealy has a menu of things he 'd like Noorda to do once he takes over . |
| 22 | And as I said , I spoke to the supervisor , switchboard supervisor , Di Combes , when we were setting up the course , and asked her what sort of things she would like to put across at a course like this which would make the switchboard 's job easier . |
| 23 | In fact , there were lots of things she 'd like to change about the way she looked , she reflected ruefully . |
| 24 | There must be all sorts of things she could try . |
| 25 | These are the sort of things you might suggest that people give you for your birthday , Christmas or other religious celebration . |
| 26 | Well , we get the usual sort of things you would expect , about fact and figures about the University itself . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There were any amount of things you could write about in Summer . |
| 29 | You may miss all kinds of things you could exploit . |
| 30 | there 's lots of things you could touch |