Example sentences of "things [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |
| 2 | ‘ I just did a couple of wild things for the videos : I covered myself with a hundred thousand bees for the Flight Of The Bumblebee and I also walked on hot coals ! ’ |
| 3 | Yes so you , was there any difficulty or embarrassment about getting these things for the pessaries and the pills from the chemist ? |
| 4 | If we can do things for the kids then that 's fine , a bonus , but otherwise we are trying to help the system , to respond to what it wants of us . |
| 5 | ‘ One of the most frustrating things for the police is to see someone they have spent weeks tracking down released on bail and subsequently re-offending . |
| 6 | Sometimes collections are made by the teacher herself to introduce new and possibly unfamiliar things for the children to explore . |
| 7 | She made touching things for the children called mock devil's-food-cakes , concocted out of cocoa , golden syrup , carrots and soya flour . |
| 8 | You know with the and when she does n't know where she 's going to get enough money to feed , clothe them and especially at a time like now , when all these adverts are on television for , you know the toys that children want , and they just have n't the ability to provide those those things for the children , much as they would want to do it . |
| 9 | I mean you learn things off the others . |
| 10 | I knock things off the shelves . |
| 11 | To the men on the ground it seemed ‘ as if to finish things off the Germans had decided to point one cannon at each one of us . ’ |
| 12 | I just wanted to say three brief things about the boundaries , before doing so I think I may have to declare a personal interest . |
| 13 | And it w not like today the supermarket , every corner shop had it 's own particular news of the world you know and my mother-in-law used to go down and she used to come up and tell me all these things about the things that were going on . |
| 14 | ‘ Easy , ’ I replied , ‘ You see , the things about the Americans is that they 've absolutely no CLAAAARSE . ’ |
| 15 | As we walked back , Silver told me many interesting things about the ships that we passed . |
| 16 | He said nice things about the children — how brave and clever they were — and then he sat down . |
| 17 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 18 | She tried to relate this sudden vision of the things of the pieties of the Dodson sisters to Daniel 's Mum 's instructions about how to cook Christmas pudding , and largely failed . |
| 19 | things like the magazines the colour supplements and things like that |
| 20 | Of course it does , we look at the guidance notes , and they say things like the police and the health authorities want erm , larger units the size of the present County Council , I 'm sorry to go on . |
| 21 | He seemed to have grown up , and was much more established in things like the beginnings of lateral work . |
| 22 | Anyway yeah they had this , this fungus and erm they , they kicked down a door and erm got extremely , extremely energetic and like put like erm er er er in this store , it was a storeroom and they 'd put things like the projectors and erm er catering equipment |
| 23 | This is what pisses me off so often you know , things like the halls of residence and stuff are there to help the students and they do n't , they just try and rip them off for every cent they can do it for . |
| 24 | erm It could be that erm with a different political regime , you might get a positive commitment not to run down things like the schools , the hospitals , British Leyland , erm British Airways , British Steel and the rest . |
| 25 | One of the most incriminating things against the girls was the discovery of Michelle 's diary at the private Churchill Clinic in London where she worked with John O'Shaughnessy . |
| 26 | Well now , now you know that when I disappear with a placard sign , I do n't just appear with a placard , we are doing things behind the scenes . |
| 27 | There were white bone things behind the leaves and hair . |
| 28 | If you plan to store some heavy books , locate lighter items towards the centre and the heavier things near the ends |
| 29 | But to patch things up the friends need to agree on a peace plan . |
| 30 | She went straight in and said to them , " For shit 's sake , ca n't you help us take the things up the stairs ? " |