Example sentences of "thing [prep] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | So you can do things like that you can do erm playing with your coins . |
2 | I mean things like that You 're not gon na have any trouble with that , are you ? |
3 | You see , with things like that you can start getting done with living off immoral earnings , brothel-keeping and whatever , and at that age — nearly seventeen — I really did n't want those type of charges . |
4 | Client reports and things like that you know you , I mean it 's |
5 | You know what with microwaves and electric toasters and things like that you know . |
6 | I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays . |
7 | I 'm sentimental enough to think that 's good , and er and er and lots of things like that you know but that th really stands out . |
8 | Th there was sort of decorations on the saddles and things like that you know , and er , er , they had this firm and it was up of course , well , and it , to tell how far it was I had to be in by seven o'clock and I used to run it all the way . |
9 | We 've be run courses you know and this they used to , they run directors ' courses , directors ' training courses and things like that you know and public speaking you know . |
10 | Oh they was er selling everything , potatoes and er carrots and things like that you know . |
11 | And things like writing leaflets in a way you know that comes up in meetings we 'd better write a leaflet and the response usually 's , Oh n gosh we ca n't do things like that you know , we ca n't speak in public , we ca n't write leaflets and in fact we do you know we find ourselves achieving these things and and I mean I think men really their attitude has really changed over the months . |
12 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
13 | Now , okay , when you 're infants and with things like that you just say ca n't do it |
14 | I was just thinking there w there would be more music playing in those days , because there was n't a television or or things like that you know maybe just to distract people make their own entertainment you know . |
15 | helped with the bedrooms and things like that you see , |
16 | Then I 'll do like , if I 've got bread rolls I 'll do them and we 'll go upstairs , we 'll take drinks up with us and we 'll eat that , and then the next morning we wake up and the bedroom 's stinking of pickles and things like that you know ? |
17 | Doctor and erm er Head of Research and er things like that you know ? |
18 | repairs , things like that you know . |
19 | You might go up there and er I du n no you what 's what 's a good way of getting myself seen when I 'm going out running at night and things like that you know and they 'll give you advice and they 'll say well there 's this you can use or that |
20 | Well , Joan and Sheila there 've been taking cobwebs down and things like that you know and then paying her to do it . |
21 | All clean inside , valeted and Barbara 's going ooh , ooh , this is nice , the lights work and things like that you know . |
22 | Things like , well , riches and justice and freedom and large things like peace and large things like that you see , or just erm personal characteristics and subordinate good is something which when it goes up things get better and bad or an evil or a vice is something when it goes up things get worse . |
23 | And , it 's things like that I ne , hope and anticipate that we can actually . |
24 | I , I had been er just in the chorus of the opera company and er you know , various the church choir and things like that I was in . |
25 | But of course it went , you see with the traffic and things like that I 'd perhaps it would n't have been s quite so handy for me because I 'd no parking room there because there was a big back to there . |
26 | Well some of it erm with some of it is , I mean it 's like the taxation side and , and things like that I can understand quite easily because I 'm used to dealing in that but when it comes |
27 | When I see things like that I leave . ’ |
28 | when I come home for lunch er , and things like that I clock up about two hundred and twenty , to two thirty , two fifty maybe a week just |
29 | Opal Fruits and things like that I could of got them that but of course a great big bag of Minstrels , you could n't just let them rummage through that , so what I done I took a couple of handfuls out and put them in here |
30 | things like that I do n't know |