Example sentences of "[art] thing i " in BNC.

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1 Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them .
2 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
3 Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac .
4 Look at all the things I 've done — I 'm not being choosy .
5 That 's one of the things I 've done , actually . ’
6 Have I got all the things I need to do this ?
7 And he said the things I said were silly .
8 Raskolnikov is not with us either , but in the novel 's final text he could not have done or said any of the things I have just mentioned .
9 ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value .
10 But in this rather frightening vision of the present and future , so have all the things I learnt to care about in eating : flavour , texture , invention , subtlety , companionship — and leisure , which marks the end of the working day and the use of time , not its gobbling .
11 ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them .
12 The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up .
13 Yes , I do believe in trying to persuade people that the things I believe in are the things they should follow …
14 I would say many of the things I 've said strike a chord in the hearts of ordinary people .
15 One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions .
16 If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business .
17 I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines .
18 One of the things I did n't like too much was the terrific hullabaloo the women made about menstruation , the way they would sit sighing in a corner and all the other women would make a fuss over them .
19 She said ‘ there 'll be no cooking except the things I have to teach — things like cakes .
20 ‘ It happened quite slowly , so I did n't stop doing the things I had always done — apart from driving .
21 The things I like best about Marie are how she laughs and her hair .
22 One of the things I feel about Throwing Muses music is that it 's visceral , sexual , but not sexy .
23 I have no right to expect the things I ask — even a kind word … ‘
24 I should n't have said the things I did .
25 Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you .
26 It would be impossible here to go into all the things I learned in therapy .
27 We began by talking about food , but food quickly became boring and was replaced by feelings , the things I had been trying to stuff down with food .
28 We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion .
29 The things I value , such as sporting play , are no longer valued .
30 One of the things I most remember about 1971 was my favourite artist , Kenneth Noland , deciding that he wanted his annual income to pass through the million-dollar barrier .
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