Example sentences of "things [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shut her eyes and concentrated on the four last things listed by the catechism : death , judgment , heaven and hell . |
| 2 | The first problem arises once we admit that in order for a ‘ system ’ ( I shall use this neutral term ) to think , its thoughts must have reference : that is to say , they must refer to things regarded by the system as existing and enduring independently of itself . |
| 3 | If things change in the meantime we could always |
| 4 | ‘ After all , there are lots of other things to enjoy in the country . ’ |
| 5 | Things crept across the room , then hovered above me , pale and threatening to suffocate me . |
| 6 | I have extraordinary things to report about the child . |
| 7 | There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music . |
| 8 | Three other things to go into the blast furnace ? |
| 9 | One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out . |
| 10 | Yes , and the things to go in the oven . |
| 11 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 12 | One of the things claimed for the Quad-FX is its ability to take an amp 's effects loop — one which wo n't line up with effects units — and correct the levels so it will . |
| 13 | But when one considers the different things claimed as the key , comparisons crumble " ( Taylor 1978 : 9 ) . |
| 14 | AT1 : ‘ Where 's the money coming from to do all the things recommended in the report ? |
| 15 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 16 | T : two things to establish for the writer at the beginning of the story one the situation what is the situation * at the beginning of the story * anybody what 's the situation Douglas * have you read the story Douglas S : no sir T : ah that wo n't help then will it who 's read the story what is the situation at the beginning SS : ( laughter ) T : £ is it Michael S : Carl T : what 's the situation at the beginning simple detail situation what where what is the story about at the beginning * have you read it S : no sir T : right who 's read it * Sarah ( Walsh 1987 : 82 ) |
| 17 | Er talking about er plumbers and er people like that , have erm have , how are you finding getti getting things repaired in the flat ? |
| 18 | The normal activity you 'll find in a primary classroom is groups of children all doing different things scattered round the room . |
| 19 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 20 | ON the golf course , 1989 was a vintage to declare and may well be the source of good things to come in the publishing world . |
| 21 | By s.34(2) ( b ) : [ g ] oods , except insofar as the context otherwise requires , includes money and every other description of property except land , and includes things severed from the land by stealing . |
| 22 | In his rapid rise to stardom he still retained a measure of the paternalism of the good C.O. He knew how much apparently little things mattered to the fighting soldier . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought there were a lot of good things happening on the Herald . |
| 24 | F passengers started voting with their feet , my goodness , that starts things happening on the security front ! ’ said Professor Paul Wilkinson yesterday . |
| 25 | ‘ Meanwhile I 've just signed with Stock Aitken and Waterman to produce my next records , and there are plenty of things happening on the television score — it 's all rather secret but there is talk of a sit-com this autumn . ’ |
| 26 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 27 | Lastly , he made up his mind to see Charlie the Pigeon , who could tell him all the things happening in the neighbourhood , because he could fly so high + see so much . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's quare things happening in the office , ma'am . |
| 29 | The overview presented here suggests that many things happening in the period were seen as being representative of significant social changes . |
| 30 | The daughter of an ocean-going boom 's captain , Hussa understood and loved all things relating to the sea . |