Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [art] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 2 | If Hume 's argument proves anything , it is just this : that the assumption of identity can not be explained in terms of the conditions under which the empirical things of the common sense world are re-identified ; in particular , it can not be explained in terms of similarities between perceptions and ideas . |
| 3 | The pagan philosophers have introduced cycles of time in which the same things are in the order of nature being restored and repeated , and have asserted that these whirlings of past and future ages will go on unceasingly … . |
| 4 | So , slowly , Creggan came to learn the routine and the lore of the Zoo and , without realizing it , to let his world , which had once been so wide and full of hope and freedom , close in and grow small ; a place in which the trivial things like the way Woil talked to the Men , or where the vultures were , were more important than flight , freedom , the sky and the winds they were banned from . |
| 5 | Even then , such assessment as there was was lost in Burgessian rhetoric : ‘ Mr Motion does all he can to chronicle those years and years of world without event , in which the interesting things happened in trousers , in pubs , and on paper … |
| 6 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |