Example sentences of "[prep] thing you [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pink pills or something but there was all sorts you know hat they used to say put your feet in hot in water , mustard and er fall down the stairs or go on a bus , they used to tell you all sorts of things you know to , and er anyway that 's what happened to me . |
| 2 | A lot of things you remember like that are moments of desolation . |
| 3 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 4 | Well , it 's one of things you have to , I think you learn fast about er u using a |
| 5 | If you decide to place your wedding list with a shop , it will save time if you think about the kinds of things you want before hitting the shop floor . |
| 6 | I felt quite dirty having to tell all these intimate details to total strangers and most of all my mother , who I had to live with and would always know everything , as they are not the sort of things you discuss with your parents . |
| 7 | Although we have some beautiful and rare things like a Queen Anne doll and the earliest-known example of a jigsaw puzzle , the things I love best are the most ordinary , fragile toys — the sort of things you find in a schoolboy 's pocket . |
| 8 | Er can you remember when you were a small child erm what sort of things you did at playtime at school ? |
| 9 | If this is the type of thing you had in mind I shall obtain an estimate from him . |
| 10 | It was never the sort of thing you thought about when you were young , when you were — or thought you were — in love , and all the future shone with promise . |
| 11 | Carbonate which is not quite the salt not the sort of thing you get from an acid normally like sulphuric , sulphuric acid give you the sulphate . |
| 12 | I did nothing about it because at 17 it was n't really the sort of thing you went to the doctor about . |
| 13 | Now I want you to think about what sort of what sort of thing you mean by musical because we know it was musical . |
| 14 | Peter and Jay played the sort of music he disliked even more than he disliked rock , the kind of thing you associated with canned tunes in restaurants and supermarkets : ‘ La Vie en Rose ’ and ‘ Never on Sunday ’ and ‘ Un Homme et une Femme ’ . |
| 15 | But that 's the sort of thing you have in mind , have someone who 's a bit younger than yourself . |
| 16 | Sometimes that learning method is called the Hebean learning rule erm because it 's the sort of thing you find in animals erm Donald a famous what was he a famous neurophysiologist . |
| 17 | see you look at the wrong type of thing , that 's the type of thing you look at |
| 18 | Maybe that 's the type of thing you want on the floor . |
| 19 | That the sort of thing you talk about in bed , Gareth ? |
| 20 | I knew initially I did n't want a man in a silver suit with a mask over his head — the sort of thing you see in fairgrounds . |
| 21 | Excel boasts a graph creating wizard , which guides you through graph creation , and turns out the kind of thing you see in the screenshots . |
| 22 | Not the sort of thing you see in the sign-language translations for the deaf . |
| 23 | It was certainly not the sort of thing you did at the BBC . |
| 24 | It was not the sort of thing you did in polite company . |
| 25 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |