Example sentences of "thing [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fun day , more fun than today and today I hope I 've provided some of the ground work ca n't there 's a lot of things I would 've liked to have gone into more detail and generally I do but today there 's just there 's just not enough time in a day to do it . |
| 2 | interpretations of his music erm , I , one of the things I would love to do and I 'm hoping to do next year is to do something related to art using a dance |
| 3 | My child , the parent says in effect , is , or should be , achieving — or aggressive or sophisticated or " nice " — just the things I would want to be . |
| 4 | Each morning , I made a list , in coloured pens , of the things I would do that day . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ I am sure that if I had my time again there would be many things I would do differently ’ , but went on : ‘ Criticism is part of the price of leadership . ’ |
| 6 | If I ruled the world everyone would sing and shout , war and bombs are the things I would throw out . |
| 7 | ‘ This is one of the things I would prefer to understand . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But if it did happen , there are certain things I would demand … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I am sorry to disturb you , Abu , ’ said Owen , ‘ but there are things I would know . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 11 | In the normal run of things I would have had no business there , no access . |
| 12 | I have enclosed a few things I would like you to look at when you have a moment . |
| 13 | But there are just one or two things I would like to ask you , ’ said Mahmoud . |
| 14 | No , but there 's plenty of things I would like to do , people I 'd like to see , yes , yes . |
| 15 | There are a couple of things I would like to say one is that you will find people have asked regards the paper which David mentioned in Northern Ireland that has been distributed it was pinned to another sheet of paper erm , headed The Last Attempt and there are more copies available it 's simply to know where to find that . |
| 16 | About those two things I would say that the number of houses requiring demolition is very small , and as has been observed already , a road is not an inappropriate use in the greenbelt . |
| 17 | ‘ All right , tell me what things I might learn . ’ |
| 18 | Things I 'll do for people ! |
| 19 | On my first visit to a venue I take photographs , get hold of the plans , make extensive notes — and there will still be a hundred things I 'll miss . |
| 20 | Those are the exciting things I 'll explain later . |
| 21 | I turned to him and said deliberately , " There are other things I 'll have to start making . " |
| 22 | Thirty seconds worth of family things I 'll put June on from Mansfield first cos June 's out champ are you ready ? |
| 23 | I think there must be things I can do now , lucrative things , to get me out of this scene . |
| 24 | He seemed to be saying , ‘ Listen Geoff , there are some things I can do for you and there are some things I ca n't . |
| 25 | There are plenty of things I can do really well . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't like wasting my energy worrying about things I can do nothing about , ’ Sally said matter-of-factly . |
| 27 | All these things I can do , to prevent death . |
| 28 | Yet there are no places I can go , things I can observe that , as a policeman , he can not . |
| 29 | I think I also write better bass lines than I did before , because when I 'm writing with my sequencers and things I can think ‘ bass ’ very easily . ’ |
| 30 | Those are things I can relate to . ’ |