Example sentences of "the things [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it dus painted behind the things whatever , come on Sunday or whatever and just say that you might |
| 2 | A sexual surrogate will A , have sex with you if he ca n't find anyone else , all the things nobody else is prepared to do with you sexually , or teach you how to draw you the partner you want ? |
| 3 | … The want of ideas of their real essences sends us from our own thoughts , to the things themselves . |
| 4 | For it follows from this distinction that we see only the appearances of things , images of them in our minds , not the things themselves , ‘ so that , for aught we know , all we see , hear , and feel , may be only phantom and vain chimera , and not at all agree with the real things ’ . |
| 5 | Whichever type of man we think of , we may find it difficult to say whether by ‘ property ’ we mean the things themselves or the aggregate of rights which are exercised over them . |
| 6 | Those people do not smoke the things themselves . |
| 7 | In the things themselves ? |
| 8 | In other words , we do not measure the things themselves but rather something that remains fixed in the memory . |
| 9 | But where were the things themselves ? ! |
| 10 | Not the things themselves . |
| 11 | It 's not the things themselves . |
| 12 | It had all the things one likes about art galleries . |
| 13 | The snow-light filling the house with magic as the white flakes drifted down in the windless silence , the splendour where the sun came out and the hills and fields and trees sparkled under the arc of blue sky , the thought of the things one did in the snow , tobogganing and snowballing , and building a snowman : it was all ecstasy . |
| 14 | ‘ Well — doing the things one likes . |
| 15 | They 'd gone all the way and still she did n't feel any of the things one was supposed to feel — elated , contented , together . |
| 16 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 17 | Going to M.I.T. taught me a great deal about linguistics in many areas ; but one of the things one easily learned at MIT at that time was a sense of conviction — the assumption that MIT led the world , and that other people 's opinions need not in general be treated seriously . |
| 18 | Erm some of the things what you get . |
| 19 | well when you 're driving along give us some of the things what you do , tell us something that you do when you 're driving along |
| 20 | I mean I 'm too frightened the things what happened what you know , the stereo nicked and |
| 21 | But , and now , and now we 're gon na go to the things what parents have wrong , like their , like , they spoil their child and everything at home . |
| 22 | I mean you could forget this list that I gave th b that gave you , unless there 's anything on it that is still relevant , but find the things yourself on that topic so that on Thursday Next Thursday you can each spend ten minutes talking about things which you 've read in your topic specifically . |
| 23 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 24 | These are the things we believe in — the things they are trying to take away . |
| 25 | Dr Runcie acknowledged that ‘ wealth creation ’ was the necessary precondition for ‘ doing all the things we ought to do ’ but added that there was no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society . |
| 26 | I spend a long time thinking about Marie and some of the things we done together . |
| 27 | He did all the things we know he is capable of doing and he behaved himself as well . ’ |
| 28 | He looked back to the era ( pre-industrialism ) before the things we consider ‘ natural ’ — prisons , asylums , hospitals — had been devised , in order to trace the ‘ genealogy ’ of pseudosciences like penology , criminology , psychiatry and sexology . |
| 29 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 30 | Paul is declaring that none of the things we boast about , or trust in — intellect , upbringing , orthodoxy , good life , and so on — are vehicles of salvation . |