Example sentences of "[to-vb] the things [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We encountered this view at the beginning of this book , in the dialogues of Plato , where we found talk of ‘ the ascent to see the things in the upper world [ which ] you may take as standing for the upward journey into the region of the intelligible ’ . |
| 2 | What used to annoy me about that shop was that , that the fact that you know people used to buy the things on the never- never |
| 3 | Bob got up and began to put the things on the table for dinner . |
| 4 | And numerous models in coloured waxes , built to imitate the things in the jars . |
| 5 | It might be useful to make a simple ‘ stocktaking ’ book with pictures to match the things in the shop . |
| 6 | Still , the trip might buy him credit with the boss , unless he thought Cormack was a sycophantic idiot offering to take the things in the first place , which was equally likely . |