It was quite a common thing to fill it with glass wholly of white and stain.
The cutting across the border by medallion or other subjects, is a common thing in fourteenth century glass (below and opposite), just because such encroachment is obviously a most useful device in dealing with narrow spaces.
But in the fourteenth century the more even combination of white and colour was quite a common thing.
He must have thought that I was your father, and that we rolled in luxury at home all the time, and that it was a common thing for us to have our boots blacked by menials.
This great man lived in the old romantic days when it was a common thing for a patriot to lay down his life that his country might live.
In trials it is quite a common thing for a lord, when accused of having altered the services, to plead that the plaintiffs were his villains to be treated at will.
At the time when feudalism was only settling itself, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this must have been a common thing, even if we do not take into account the Saxon practice of 'commendation.
It is a common thing for a person to be stopped on the street by a horseman and asked for a centavo, which is worth two and a half cents of our money.
Their looks are sufficient to convict them of the gluttony and libertinism of which they are accused, and it is a common thing to see them reeling through the streets in a state of intoxication.
It is a common thing to see a row of carriages before a fashionable store with a clerk at the door of each one exhibiting silks or gloves or ribbons.
But in 1860 was it a common thing for a proprietor's ground officer to threaten to remove a tenant unless he could get his rent from the fish-curer?
Are you aware whether it is a common thing in Lerwick, to sell shawls cheaper for money than they would be given for goods?
Is it a common thing in Shetland for a man's wife to get such advances of money during his absence-Yes, they would get a small sum of money, but the merchant would prefer them to take goods.
I know that is a common thing, but I have never done it.
In Japonia, 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abortion, which Aristotle commends.
It is a common thingfor a clergyman to change his profession and follow any other pursuit.
It is not a common thing to meet an American who belongs to no denomination of Christian worship, and who cannot tell you why he belongs to that which he has chosen.
I have said that it is not a common thing to meet an American who belongs to no denomination of Christian worship.
Now it is quite a common thing to see cash dancing about a ring of spectators at a big match, and often the loss of cash to certain individuals means a proportionate loss of temper, and the practice is all the more to be deplored.
It is quite a common thing for a cat to feed itself with milk or cream, by dipping her forepaw in the jug, and then licking it.
It is quite a common thing to see a cat amusing itself playing with rabbits, or guinea pigs, at hide-and-seek among the bushes, or on the lawn.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
