Example sentences of "thing i do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ought to show a bit of gratitude , the things I do for you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The things I do for that boy , ’ mused Mary , as she jumped off the bike and began to push it up Station Hill . |
| 3 | ‘ The things I do for you , Ricky . |
| 4 | I am always at risk in the things I do for the Motherland , but idiots create the kind of additional risks one can not always allow for . ’ |
| 5 | The things I do for people . |
| 6 | Put another way , perhaps the things I do with my time are really what I want to do . |
| 7 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 8 | And I 'm trying to present the kind of things I do in this course and my other course . |
| 9 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 10 | — unspeakable things I did at night |
| 11 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 12 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 13 | I could n't have done any of the things I did without her . " |
| 14 | Now interesting because erm one of the things I did before Christmas was I went out to and it I think it 's my memory it 's sixty percent of Scotland is , is , gets its power from nuclear power |
| 15 | Which really is the worst sort of hype , because although I think that some of the things I did in The Birthday Party were good and some of them were great , some of them were just , ‘ So what ? ’ |
| 16 | Erm not too bad , I mean we 've done a The last thing I done at at the night school , was a historogram . |
| 17 | She made two journeys up it , muttering to herself : ‘ It 's the last thing I do for the nigger . |
| 18 | If it 's the last thing I do in this life … ’ |
| 19 | And I remembered an early line from ‘ Othello ’ where Iago says something like , ‘ I 'll get that bloody Moor if it 's the last thing I do in my life . ’ |
| 20 | I thought , ‘ If that 's good enough for Shakespeare , it 's good enough for me ’ , and so King Rat starts , ‘ I 'm going to get that bloody bastard if it 's the last thing I do in my life . ’ |
| 21 | However , the head persisted and so I quickly racked my brains and said I would do the sort of thing I do in my classroom at home . |
| 22 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for you , Mikhail . |
| 23 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for more than three years , ’ said Norman , who was a coppersmith at GEC in Manchester . |
| 24 | The first thing I did at Bangkok Airport was book by flight back . |
| 25 | ‘ Will you help me put right the wicked thing I did to you ? |
| 26 | And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past . |