Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no point in dwelling on the sad things that happened . |
| 2 | These are not at all original or exotic but are based on the ordinary things that most people tend to eat . |
| 3 | Swimmings of light on the smallest things . |
| 4 | The longer this situation goes on the worse things are going to get . |
| 5 | ‘ On the early things on Sun it 's him , and then later on , on RCA , occasionally he would play or , like you mentioned before , he would turn the guitar over and just keep time on the back of it . ’ |
| 6 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 7 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 8 | But it 's important we keep other An eye on the other things , keep other things ticking over and things like the hormone cream and the lithium will be a help in that . |
| 9 | On page six of our agenda there are congress organization motions which clearly need to be discussed some time during this congress because they concern rule amendments , and if they do fall off the agenda because debate is long on the other things , I really do believe they should take priority because we wo n't be raising them for another three years . |
| 10 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 11 | HOG 's first aim , explains X/Open 's Martin Kirk , was to ensure that the various participants were not all working separately on the same things — but at the same time , that all the appropriate ground was being covered . |
| 12 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 13 | A conscious decision is needed to get government out of things the private sector does better and to concentrate government on the basic things that only governments can do . |
| 14 | They did a surprisingly brisk trade , although mostly on the little things , the ewers and basins , china dogs , trays of ancient photographs . |
| 15 | ‘ He took us right back to basics , started us again on the simplest things . |
| 16 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 17 | I was now at a bit of a loss as to what to do next , so I wandered upstairs to the room that housed the books covering my subject , just to check up on a few things . |
| 18 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 19 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 20 | ‘ The next day she would always phone to say that she had been in and she 'd pick on a few things that she was n't quite happy with . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been thinking about Simon , ’ he said , as he began to eat , ‘ and I 'd be grateful if you could fill me in on a few things . ’ |
| 23 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |