Example sentences of "the things " in BNC.
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1 | Battle , Murder , and Death , Venuses and Psyches , the bloody and voluptuous , are the things in which they seem to delight : and these are portrayed in a cold , hard , and often tawdry style , with an almost universal deficiency of chiaroscuro ; the whole artificial , labored and theatrical . |
2 | He is infinitely kind to all the things that go into his pictures . |
3 | Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them . |
4 | One of the things you will notice when watching the television is that close-ups are used very effectively , and so it is of vital importance that the actor has absolute control over his/her face and expression . |
5 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
6 | Galsworthy gives very precise details on the dimensions of the cell , the things that are in it and the character 's sequence of actions . |
7 | There do n't seem to be enough hours in the day to do all the things you have to do , quite apart from your laundry ! |
8 | But there is the chance of working with Cicely Berry , who is so wonderful at adding in a positive , performance orientated way to all the things you have learnt about voice . |
9 | And I 've rejected nothing , but the things that happen when working expand the horizons and the understanding . |
10 | The things to remember are the practical ones about yourself . |
11 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
12 | The Comet was listed after the damage had been done , and with the Prospect Inn it was necessary to itemise all the things that had not changed , since the superficial impression of change was predominant . |
13 | ‘ I derive my enjoyment of food from its colour , texture and the combination on the plate when I eat ; so these are the things that I concentrate on when cooking for customers , ’ she explains . |
14 | If David had ever learned of the things Phipps had said to her , he would probably … |
15 | ‘ That is one of the things that is making our enquiries difficult . ’ |
16 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
17 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
18 | Look at all the things I 've done — I 'm not being choosy . |
19 | That 's one of the things I 've done , actually . ’ |
20 | It 's amazing some of the things that have come back to me . |
21 | It is important to try and keep in practice in order to reinforce all the things which have been learned during the pre-solo training . |
22 | After the first landing , the things to practise are more variations in the approaches and landings , trying some steep and some shallow , but attempting to touch down accurately on the chosen spot . |
23 | But here are some of the things you may notice : |
24 | Look after yourself by eating a balanced and varied diet of protein , dairy products and fresh fruit and vegetables , getting enough rest and cutting out the things that can harm your baby . |
25 | Have I got all the things I need to do this ? |
26 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |
27 | He is reluctant to preach , but if his lifestyle conveys anything , it is an emphatic witness to the importance of the things of the spirit ; a disclaimer of the acquisitive society . |
28 | These are the things we believe in — the things they are trying to take away . |
29 | These are the things we believe in — the things they are trying to take away . |
30 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |