Example sentences of "[art] [adj] things [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 2 | A story which focuses on those aspects of ‘ family ’ , which family photography has deselected , but transforms the ordinary things every mother has seen — a wet bed ( as above ) , a bloody nose ( ‘ Emmett 's Bloody Nose ’ 1985 ) , candy cigarettes ( ‘ Candy Cigarette ’ 1989 ) into a technically and philosophically complex narrative . |
| 3 | ‘ You would n't believe the number of times I 've offered the beastly things a sugar lump and been nipped like billyo in return . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If we change the name , we show disrespect for all of the good things the party has done for Poland . ’ |
| 5 | She defines as one of the good things the non-specialist character of primary school teaching . |
| 6 | Doing a little research I can give you approximate numbers of the various things the Guild has made since the turn of the century as follows : 645 sets of Mass vestments , 121 copes , 226 altar cloths , 211 albs plus hundreds of pieces of small linen corporals , purificators amices , etc . |
| 7 | In the beginnings of this second stanza , the poet is describing all the wonderful things the sun can do but then goes on to say that all these great wonders are completely forgotten when the sun can not even rejuvenate a man whose body is still warm and almost living . |
| 8 | In addition to all the other things the child is experiencing , this is an essential learning-time when it comes to forging relationships . |
| 9 | Perhaps the Masai have taboos against fellatio and the other things the French , with their gastronomic traditions , favour in the sexual realm . |
| 10 | A way of finding out things not only about going faster and further , but also about the new things the child suddenly finds himself able to do . |