Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] thing you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 2 | Killing Elinor was the kind of thing you would need years of study to accomplish . |
| 3 | The kind of thing you might come out with after being hit with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 4 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 5 | That 's the kind of thing you can use as proof of ownership . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 7 | At the very least NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU 'D EXPECT FROM THE FARM . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , its anorexic attractions are exactly the kind of thing you 'd expect from people who only formed a band in the first place to get off the dole . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing you would do — to make yourself look big — to make me look a fool . |
| 10 | The great thing about library music is that it is fairly non-commital : you can go in all kinds of directions and you 're asked to provide music in a certain style , which may not be the sort of thing you would do naturally , but it 's still enjoyable to do . |
| 11 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 12 | The sort of thing you might do was , if you 've got a decision , is you might want to look t at the of that decision , okay ? |
| 13 | It 's the sort of thing you might collect from the House of Commons particularly during a er big debate . |
| 14 | you know that 's the sort of thing you might want to read as , as kind of background supplementary material and particularly |
| 15 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 16 | It 's the sort of thing you 'll find |
| 17 | I ca n't quantify these , I ca n't tell you how many there 'll be , but there will be questions on motivation but before that there 'll be some questions on the basics of of kind of y'know studying , work , psychology , the sort of thing you 'll find in an introductory chapter er not only of the Arnold book but in other books as well . |
| 18 | do you think that 's the sort of thing you 'll like ? |
| 19 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |
| 20 | It 's not the sort of thing you can take with you . |
| 21 | It 's not the sort of thing you can dash off in a couple of months . |
| 22 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 23 | I think it 's the sort of thing you 'd make damn sure you know , despite you 're English . |
| 24 | That 's just the sort of thing you 'd like ! ’ |
| 25 | That 's the thing , the sort of thing you should keep an eye open , an eye open for . |
| 26 | Cathbad clicked his tongue , because this was not the sort of thing you should say to soldiers , who were easily cast down and sent into gloom and doom , something you should certainly avoid before going into battle . |