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Example sentences for "certain things"

  • That it is perfect is evident, for the Philosopher, in the sixth book of the Ethics, says that science or knowledge is the perfect reason of certain things.

  • His avariciousness, except in certain things, passed all belief.

  • I returned to Philadelphia deciding once and for all certain things in regard to Mr. Rogers and others affecting the future of J.

  • You do certain things without a thought, because you have gotten into the habit of doing them.

  • He was compelled to do certain things in order to live and reproduce his kind.

  • And he fails to see that he is moulding his own character by taking interest in certain things, and allowing his mind to dwell upon them.

  • The Grand Rapids "Press" fearing that I might fail to notice certain underlying features of Grand Rapids life, printed an editorial at the time of my visit, in which attention was called to certain things.

  • My companion and I happened to stop at the latter, and we became very much interested in certain things about it.

  • During the evening Colonel Buell, who stood for an hour or two and watched the play, spoke of certain things that he had seen and done which, as I estimated it, could not have been seen or done within the last sixty years.

  • Anyway, if certain things happened, it would be possible for him to plead a successful alibi.

  • There is father, in a way sentimental, but on certain things he can be as hard as granite.

  • It is doing too much honor to certain things to refute them seriously.

  • But to religion it belongs to do certain things by reason of our reverence for God.

  • Hence men must do certain things, not so that their acts may change the Divine arrangement, but that by their acts they may bring about certain effects according to the order arranged by God; and it is the same with natural causes.

  • Hence the inferior Angels are taught certain things by the higher Angels, though all see the Divine Essence.

  • Persons are rendered proportionate to and worthy of things which are distributed among them, by reason of certain things pertaining to circumstances of person, wherefore such conditions ought to be considered as the proper cause.

  • But we are not here to argue why they did or did not do certain things.

  • Because the committee had agreed that certain things had to be done, and that they would be done, and therefore there was no occasion for any further investigation.

  • We are surprised at his answers," exclaimed Lawyer Forrest, "because of certain things we have been informed about.

  • Since then he has appeared to me more than once in exceedingly great glory, and told me certain things.

  • I have seen this glorious Saint occasionally, and he has told me certain things, and thanked me for praying for his Order, and he has promised to pray for me to our Lord.

  • But as, by the help of God, I shall speak more at large of certain things, I wish now to go on with the story of my life.

  • You see, certain things that we want we can't have if we take a house--a car, for instance.

  • The alley, however, was rather confused by certain things.

  • For it is clear that the being of the house is a result of its form, which consists in the putting together and arrangement of the materials, and results from the natural qualities of certain things.

  • Certain things belong to the adornment of the universe by reason of their proper movement; and in this way the heavenly luminaries agree with others that conduce to that adornment, for they are moved by a living substance.

  • People have supposed that these invisible beings desired them to do certain things, to refrain from doing certain other things, and they have expected them to reward or punish them how?

  • A prayer, then, you see, is a very composite thing, not a simple thing, not merely made up of the element of pleading with God to give us certain things that we cannot come into possession of by ordinary means.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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