Example sentences of "thing are [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no news of Britain here , so I hope things are limping along in the usual way . |
| 2 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 3 | He thinks : " I am like a pool … some tide has filled me , the sand is swirling , the waters are obscured and strange things are creeping out of the cracks and crannies in my mind " ( p. 227 ) . |
| 4 | Genetic experimentation remains the most popular theory , but though Hopkins has plenty of wild stories about artificial insemination , or half-breed alien/human babies already in existence ( all strictly off the record of course ) all he 's prepared to say is that things are coming out into the open . |
| 5 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |