Example sentences of "of thing [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a I 've got a lot of things to talk about so |
| 2 | We could can prime them up on what to say and types of things to talk about so they do n't get moaned down or something ! |
| 3 | But the plan is for us all to write a couple of things to put on an album . ’ |
| 4 | There is a wealth of things to do at Dover Castle . |
| 5 | ‘ They were always thinking of things to do with me . |
| 6 | You 've got sixty two to beat thirty seconds worth of things to do with families and your time starts now . |
| 7 | No a lot , a lot of things to do with smoking , drugs and alcohol |
| 8 | There 's no shortage of things to do in Leeds , whether you 're after high culture or street cool . |
| 9 | You 'll never be short of things to do in Dublin — whether it 's shopping in its modern centre , or simply relaxing over a Guinness in one of the city 's excellent pubs . |
| 10 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
| 11 | apart from anything else we might not be allowed to do anything like cooking or having sort of things to sell like that in the hall |
| 12 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 13 | ‘ If you 'll excuse me , ’ she requested , ‘ I 've a couple of things to attend to . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And as to the over-imaginative way in which papers have so often treated her , she added simply : ‘ Because I 'm only young , and have lived such a short and normal life , they run out of things to say about me . ’ |
| 16 | As I mentioned in the chapter on ‘ Teachers ’ , the Bible has got a lot of things to say about how we get on with other people . |
| 17 | HOWEVER , the Bible does have a load of things to say about how to treat other people and about how to build friendships . |
| 18 | So if you find lots of things to say about the others , you 're still in with a chance here . |
| 19 | By the time he had rallied and got himself together and was thinking of things to say to the police it was too late and they were heading north . |
| 20 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 21 | For the viewing stage give teachers a checklist of things to look for , or questions to be answered after viewing . |
| 22 | West Germany , as a nation , is being asked the most profound questions about the shape of things to come on its borders . |
| 23 | This transmission , which can handle up to 221lb ft torque , is definitely the shape of things to come at Mercedes , and in the next two years it is likely that all six-cylinder Mercedes cars will be equipped with it . |
| 24 | This may be the shape of things to come from United , and if Cantona — whatever his role — can bring the best out of the rest , then Ferguson will be saying ‘ Vive Le Difference ’ . |
| 25 | The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly . |
| 26 | Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city . |
| 27 | If Picon has his way , the statue will be a sign of things to come in that department : expansion of gallery space , conservation and display of long-unseen areas of the museum 's collection and an ambitious schedule of special exhibitions . |
| 28 | The sacking of Henri Langlois from the Cinematheque had , curiously , been a sign of things to come in Paris . |
| 29 | Oh , why do n't you make what you 've got cos you 've got a lot of things to make at the moment , and then come back and choose another time , hm . |
| 30 | Finally I 'll just say this to him , I agree that we have a great deal of things to learn from the United States , not in the way he suggests but it is a fact that er over the economic cycle of O E C D between seventy nine and eighty nine er America the United States saw growth of twenty six percent which created eighteen and half million jobs in their free enterprise economy . |