Example sentences of "these things " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 2 | Indeed , the kind of life which he bestows on his coffee-pot or coffee-grinder , his table , his chair and window , is just the sort of life we feel these things are really living ! |
| 3 | Of course , if an actor is doing his/her work well , you will have to work really hard to notice all these things — for the effect will be seamless . |
| 4 | No-one can hope to have a command of all these things at a first audition . |
| 5 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 6 | It is only during the time of waiting , wrote Harsnet , during the time without hope , that these things assume significance , only during the time without hope that one is conscious of them , that one remembers them with despair , that one anticipates them with dread . |
| 7 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 8 | The summer , which was a glorious one that year , gave way to a gusty autumn , and , as is the way with these things , after the autumn came the winter . |
| 9 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 10 | ‘ All these things recently , I do n't know if it 's just bad luck or me being stupid or what . ’ |
| 11 | Well , I did and did n't get and now I have all these things . |
| 12 | If you want to see someone , none of these things stand in the way ! |
| 13 | She felt like a total loony doing these things for herself . |
| 14 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 15 | As I 've said , she does n't understand these things . |
| 16 | How do you find these things ? ’ |
| 17 | What any of these things is like in itself , even the qualitative nature of the spatial medium of the relations , remains unknown . |
| 18 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 19 | Goddess , she calls happily , I 've wanted to shout these things at her for years . |
| 20 | I do not know how the customs people work these things out , but I have never paid import duties on these overseas postal purchases . |
| 21 | But Benskins said that none of these things was important . ’ |
| 22 | I pondered on these things and felt that it was not good … |
| 23 | The hyperconscious Double Act in which Svidrigailov 's terminal boredom plays opposite the greedy , theoretical self-assertion of Raskolnikov 's wanting ‘ something more ’ than ‘ mere existence ’ , becomes grounded in suicide and murder ; and the Petersburg where these things happen gains a fuzzy-edged documentary aspect which never comes anywhere near dominating the novel , but which is there . |
| 24 | Again these things happen as they do happen , the magic narrative containing spur-ofthe-moment impulse within trancelike inevitability . |
| 25 | These things add up . |
| 26 | The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought to be so . |
| 27 | I believe profoundly in all these things , it goes without saying ; my difficulty lies in knowing how defensible they are in the form in which they are visibly institutionalized in the anglophone academy . |
| 28 | If this seem an over-long prologue , think how little discussion there is of these things . |
| 29 | For members of the society it has never been so important to know these things . |
| 30 | The Soviets said to Greenspan , ‘ Look , you 're an expert in currency matters , and would n't it be interesting for us to chat about these things ? ’ |