Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkinson , who has cajoled and bullied to knock Cantona into shape , joked that the language barrier is still there because ‘ If I 'm saying nice things about him he seems to understand — if I suggest he works harder or I say nasty things , he finds that harder to comprehend . ’ |
| 2 | But he checked every bit of my work of course and so most of the time do it by himself and let and me do other things . |
| 3 | Just minding me own business and I get fucking things thrown at me , timesheet ripped timecard cut . |
| 4 | But we used to en I used to enjoy going to it , as I say until I got older and I wanted to sort of stretch my wings a little bit and and I did other things . |
| 5 | And you like expensive things , ’ he said softly . |
| 6 | In your own home you care for your family and you do other things — cooking , you do a bit of sewing and a bit of reading and a bit of knitting and a bit of writing … all kinds of things . |
| 7 | A live show is something separate and you do different things in a live show to what you do on a record . |
| 8 | But look at individuals , rather than averages , and you see interesting things happening to some of the peasants ' lives . |
| 9 | ‘ — And she says dreadful things to you in front of the whole class and makes you feel really stupid , ’ continued Maud . |
| 10 | In the nineteenth century this all changed because opiates became much more widely and cheaply available so er babies were dosed with paregoric to stop them crying erm er and subsequently in the twentieth century that stopped and we do other things now . |
| 11 | well , and we drop them and we add other things . |
| 12 | They were on Oh and there was the er where the Midland Bank is , there was a cafe there and they sold odd things you know . |
| 13 | They do n't drink red hot stuff , they drink , only eat red hot stuff , and they drink cool things to cool their mouth down after ! |
| 14 | Wh what we do you see , they have to wander around the showground doing this , so we get our traffic through the showground and they see other things while they 're going around . |
| 15 | It was n't that he would n't help , often he did , but he believed that by delegating he brought out the best in people , that they would rise to the challenge , and he had other things to be done . ’ |
| 16 | And he did wonderful things with my clockwork trains that I never thought of doing . ’ |
| 17 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 18 | Yeah , but I mean basic things Ken , we 'll take for example |
| 19 | But I hear interesting things . |
| 20 | They 're buying disposable presents like giving theatre vouchers and erm I do n't know what else but she said disposable things that people can have some fun with . |
| 21 | Helen Gardner was not a deep thinker , but she saw certain things more clearly than many sharper minds . |
| 22 | But she knew other things about him . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the company said : ‘ You ca n't get away from sewage smells at a sewage plant but we do various things to help reduce the nuisance . ’ |
| 24 | But they do other things . |
| 25 | Not all living things fly , but they do other things that are just as improbable , and just as specifiable in advance . |
| 26 | ‘ Anders is not in that category but he has other things to offer . |