Example sentences of "the [adj] things [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but think of the grisly things you might otherwise get . |
| 2 | Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott . |
| 3 | In this chapter so far we have focused on specificities in your argument — the presuppositions in your sentences , the specific things you can say about particular texts , the setting of something in its context , and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ Probably it 's one of the strange things you pick up , ’ he said , quoting her . |
| 5 | You should see her doing her impersonation of him ; one of the funniest things I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 6 | It 's one of the funniest things I 've heard for Oh , minutes ! |
| 7 | Along the back of the machine are all the usual things you 'd expect — serial and parallel ports , keyboard socket and video input . |
| 8 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 9 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 10 | While the sisters were tending my blisters , I felt an inexpressible love choking me , I regretted all the uncharitable things I had thought or said about nuns , I felt as if I were the Magdalene , and Christ were anointing my feet . |
| 11 | Some of the exciting things I could do without . |
| 12 | Those are the exciting things I 'll explain later . |
| 13 | Careers adviser Julie Bayley suggests structuring the CV so that your date of birth comes last and the interesting things you 've done recently up front — and that includes voluntary work . |
| 14 | That is , if you 're concentrating and observing , which is one of the cardinal things I 've already mentioned . |
| 15 | Even her voice , detached from the funny things she said , was like honey and gravel stones all mixed up . |
| 16 | Please pray that you 'll be with each one of us and that we 'll enjoy today with grandma and all the different things we 'll do . |
| 17 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 18 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 19 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
| 20 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 21 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 22 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 23 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 24 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 25 | One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving . |
| 26 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 27 | Schmidt looked through the few things she brought out . |
| 28 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 29 | ‘ Vicky adores the dog and she is one of the few things she is interested in . |
| 30 | ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk . |