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Like many of her peers, Zhang admitted that she had a thing about celebrity lectures.

This supposition is fascinating but, if such a thing happens, where are the evidences of these visits?

A thousand useless things happen day after day, and why couldn't such a thing come true by chance? It would be like a story in a book.

and I wouldn't trouble you only I know I can trust you to see a thing done, and I wish I could say the same of every one I know.

And I was held by the neck by this person, and he had a thing that was about half the size of a hay hook that was made out of a thin wire.

The little stream had never heard of such a thing . "Give up what I am now and disappear into the breeze? "

Two years ago, in the drizzling misery that enveloped Croatia's previous visit to Wembley, who could have dreamed of such a thing?

She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat.

The fact that there is such a thing as the Business Marketing Association speaks to the size and credibility of the industry.

Fancy came out of the darkened room and lured him on, a thing of flaming brightness.

April 5You are wont to rush to judgment, to call a thing "wrong" or "bad" or "not enough, " rather than to bless what you do not choose.

Pacquiao is the kind of figure who could restore boxing to its former glory, if such a thing were possible.

"I have never heard of such a thing, " she said. "The government takes this case very seriously and is devoting resources to it, " she said.

And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.

It was foolish of her to say such a thing.

While it is still an element that is dangerous and with which we wish to measure our courage, water is no longer a thing of mystery.

A: But he used to be very relaxed and cheerful. It's not like Harry to do a thing like that.

To some extent, whether you can get a thing done or not does not depend on your ability, but on how much you want to do it.

In 1890, the U. S. Census Bureau declared that there was no longer such a thing as the American frontier.

Sloan also introduced a systematic strategic planning procedure for the company's divisions, the first CEO ever to do such a thing.

Germany and ourselves have great respect for each other and this was a thing in the heat of the moment.

"If you spoke to her, she sincerely believed that this was owed to her and she had not done a thing wrong, " Mr. Mahler said.

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself, but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

Joan had never been able to keep a thing to herself though she was always very incensed if one told her so.

Fate! There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then it's up to you to make it happen. ' - Can't Hardly Wait.

However, if a thing were to "leave" me, I would feel upset. Because I feel that if I cherish it, it would not leave me.

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.

Just a pie? It's downright expert. A thing of beauty. How each flavor opens itself, one by one, like a chapter in a book.

What is time? Is it a thing to be saved or spent or wasted, like money? Or is it something we have no control over, like the weather?

But it's not clear how much can be done. Cheap food, like cheap oil, may be a thing of the past.

He would be the last person who would do such a thing.

Such a thing is impossible, given that Duality is not the Reality, yet in the world of our illusion such impossibilities can seem very real.

In order to be determined ( in the two sense of the word) by an external factor, it is necessary that I should be a thing.

I had been warned by his communications manager that he might be late for our meeting because he had to do a "thing" beforehand.

'You're a bad egg, Jack. How dare you are to say such a thing in front of a virgin like me? ' She twists him on his arm heavily.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played no the oldest fiddles.

and for him sex becomes a problem, an issue, a thing to be avoided or to be indulged.

"God! 32 million times. " Surprised about the small bell. "To me to do such a thing? Not possible, the impossible. "

It will be silly of him to do such a thing again.

If you never lose a thing again, think about how much time and money you've saved.

Freelancers can be hired extensively for a big project, and then not paid a thing when a company has no work.

In his action and movement he is deliberate and yet alert, he makes no unnecessary movements when he is doing a thing---no fuss.

I remember that Iused to be proud of my hair, as if it could matter what colour a thing was.

"I'll not do which first lot time, " the man complained to his mother which night. "I don't grab a thing. "

not a thing of all that had been theirs did she retain but the old seal and spoon. 'Pooh - I have as much of mother as father in me!

Just hear me out. You've got nothing to lose, right? My name is Jester, and I know a thing or two about this place.

Yes it would, but the point is, no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing.

One of the ways we will know when a thing has passed from "as-if to is" is when it earns unalloyed love from humans.

I seem to have a thing for black sports cars as I'm currently on my fourth one now and the next one will likely be a black Mustang.

One may as well not know a thing at all than know it but imperfectly.

Such a thing should be sold soon, and I call it saving purchase. It's appropriate if it's not over. Congratulations!

He said while he taught the younger players a thing or two about the sport, he was also picking up a lot from them.

"Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any questions" (Charles S. Peirce).

Miss one, miss a thing, not the poor, poor, no one available to you miss, you do not remember a thing available.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Mr Smedley, with the drudgery of the office a thing of the past, exulted in the sense of freedom that came from his longed-for release.

If you were to do such a thing again, you would be punished.

Never give up the right to dream. The belief and passion that dream has brought to us illustrates a thing with the name of life.

He asked for 1000. Generally speaking, how much is reasonable for such a thing? Is there forged pattern?

The lost toy is a great matter to the child, but in the king's eyes it is not a thing to break the heart about.

Gyms could really learn a thing or two from this and I hope to see more of it around the globe.

Is there such a thing as a non-regulated part of the financial sector that you can afford to ignore?

"Fuss! " she hotly replied. "Nonsense! How can you say such a thing! Fuss, indeed! But, you know, you said he was clever. "

Such a thing in the "relocation" in common, we have the psychological preparation of you also got used of this kind of things.

Lang did not know a thing, getting a bad temper.

Even to a schoolboy dare I not say that he does not know a thing about English.

Let me hasten to say that I could never do such a thing!

She's always been on the up and up and I don't think she would have done such a thing.

This love, is only a thing of me, myself. So, do not ask me why I love you.

Mutombo. This guy is an inspiration to his teammates, all the young guys on our team can learn a thing or two from this old warrior.

Did you uh, ever get this sort of. . . panicky, "Oh my god I'm gonna be a father" kind of a thing?

But we, as Muggles , would be unable to comprehend how such a thing could be.

It would seem to be a sort of accident, if it turned out that a situation would fit a thing that could already exist entirely on its own.

Clearly you do not want all DOAP descriptions to be invalidated if such a thing happens.

Who could have supposed you were going to do such a thing?

He was as ready to absorb every bit of goodness in a thing as he was lavish in singing its praises.

Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to recognise that you do not know it. That is knowledge.

If there's such a thing as the dog days of the exhibition season, the Lakers might be feeling it.

Except his mild little wife there was not a thing with any pretensions to attractiveness about this household.

In foreign environment, this is to be able to take those who say a thing, be being returned in home is should a bit more careful.

Mr Plattner, not to be outdone, retorts that it doesn't take a psychologist to understand why Mr Ellison might say such a thing.

For as for this, it might have happened unto any man, but any man having such a thing befallen him, could not have continued without grief.

A mild discussion may sometimes develop into a set-to. Such a thing is little short of ludicrous.

Then he shows how dressing and undressing works. Brilliant! ! I never have seen such a thing before in a concert.

If I'm gonna be an old lonely guy, I need a thing, a hook. Like that guy in the subway who eats his own face.

What if I were to try such and such a thing?

"My life used to be full of everything, " I said. "Now if you aren't with me, I haven't a thing in the world. "

If it's a thing you want, this may not be applicable to everything but maybe you could borrow it, or even make it.

If he ~ say such a thing again, I shall knock him down.

Frenchman would never dream of doing a thing like that. . . unless he was as cracked as you are.

If I'm gonna be an old lonely guy, I need a thing, a hook. Like that guy in the subway who eats his own face.

What if I were to try such and such a thing?

"My life used to be full of everything, " I said. "Now if you aren't with me, I haven't a thing in the world. "

If it's a thing you want, this may not be applicable to everything but maybe you could borrow it, or even make it.

If he ~ say such a thing again, I shall knock him down.

Frenchman would never dream of doing a thing like that. . . unless he was as cracked as you are.

Any right-thinking printer or any right-thinking publisher would scoff at the presumption of a poet who demanded such a thing.

If there was no such a thing as homophobia he would be the happiest man in the world.

But whenever we give a thing a name that belongs to something else, we give it a whole network of analogies too.

Is the jump as he did not know it would be a thing of the past?

Is the jump as he did not know it would be a thing of the past?

He said such a thing ought not to be allowed to happen.

I explain that part of the game is for the FT to pick up the bill. He grins. "So there is such a thing as a free lunch. "

Impelled by some sort of fascination, I approached the sepulchre to see what it was and why such a thing stood alone in such a place.

Patching: Remember each smartphone is a computer, and every so often the vendor will find a thing or two (or forty) that must be fixed.

Although it may be tempting to create audit policies that track every possible event, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

First, we have to ask if such a thing as an Internet Kill Switch is even possible.

"There's no such thing as [the term three-peat or four-peat] back then, no one had even heard of such a thing, " Jackson said.

I understood the joy of childhood. Fun interesting thing is probably that such a thing, no one's childhood, there is no on a few?

As a fashion statement, can be extended to real life of a thing, someone always separate emotional refused.

As a fashion statement, can be extended to real life of a thing, someone always separate emotional refused.

If we find that distance and circumstance won't let us be together, I've had a wonderful time with you and I don't regret a thing.

I told him plainly that if he ever said such a thing again. I would knock the stuffing out of him.

May 20Judge not, and neither condemn, for you know not why a thing occurs, nor to what end.

He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.

Athletes from other sports speak of an ideal performance state, the so-called "flow. " Do you know such a thing, too?

If you could find such a thing, that would be the universal final good or truly the ultimate purpose or goal for all human beings.

The things I do not want to say, I really am sad I did not expect that trust should have done such a thing.

I couldn't tell you a thing that happened the rest of that evening. Except that i was the happiest man alive.

She, too, had been awake all that night. She had been thinking of a thing which had agitated her mind a hundred times before.

Schwartz has always enjoyed this type of public discourse, as he continued to blog in a time when very few CEOs would dare do such a thing.

Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true.

"It was the first time I'd heard of such a thing, " he recalled. "And I knew at once that it was what I wanted to do. "

One of the challenges of Semantic Web research is creating a URI that reliably identifies a thing rather than some accidental aspect of it.

In other words, there is such a thing as a "Romantic Movement, " and classicism is only an aspect of it.

Before you know it, a couple of minutes has turned into a couple of hours and you haven't written a thing.

If you haven't got a date for the red-letter day(5), read on and pick up a thing or two to make it bearable(6) for you.

It's very considerate of you to do such a thing for the old lady.

Wikipedia tells me that a kenning is called a kenning from a norse phrase translating as "to express a thing in terms of another. "

I should be taken for an impudent creature that had forged such a thing to go away from my husband.

Those must be comfortable shoes. I bet you could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing.

He has had women come up to him to tell him a thing or two about a thing or two.

So, I wanted to say a few words about what an ordinary black hole is, as if there could be such a thing as an ordinary black hole.

"After all, " he thought, "the poor chap will get over it; not the first time such a thing has happened in this little city! "

normally dont get caught up to fast but I got a thing for you.

As the Millionaire Matchmaker, Patti Stanger knows a thing or two about how to win the heart of a wealthy man.

Horse sense tells me that it would be suicide to do such A thing.

Your own inner self will not allow you to believe such a thing--for God works WITH you and not FOR you.

Regardless of how you respond, I intend to go on this matter, such a thing we must continue to do so.

How could you do a thing like this, raise up a little boy's hopes and then dash all his dreams to pieces? You're an inhuman monster!

Her trouble was terrible; but was it a thing of her imagination, engendered by an extravagant sensibility?

Stephen is the last man to do such a thing with a grudge.

All my friends were unanimous not to let me so far neglect my character as to adjust a thing of this kind without reparation.

In its strongest form, the EMH denies that there could even be such a thing as the housing bubble (see here and here).

One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing as lift a cart like that on his back.

billy: michael, you know me better than that! i would never do such a thing to a colleague.

Years later Jesse read in a magazine that people dying of hypothermia did such a thing, believing heat, not the cold, was killing them.

Imaginative creativity is the gene for a thing to be an artwork. Without such a gene, a thing can be anything but an artwork.

Meanwhile, the oil industry is already getting to grips with the question of what to do if such a thing should happen again.

The front beginning was a wilderness, have no rock also have no what cover up a thing.

I wonder at your allowing her to do such a thing.

Paraphrase: The reward of a thing well done cannot be isolated from the course of action. Those who have done it will naturally be rewarded.

To determine the reality of a fact that is a thing, all you need do is pay it a visit.

It was absurd of you to do such a thing.

Led down the dark path by Aurra Sing, Boba will learn a thing of two about deception and deceit from his bounty hunter henchmen.

When he heard of his daughter's wickedness he said: " I can't believe that she did so evil a thing, but the truth will soon come to light. "

God is a thing made of clay, that I can smash with a hammer; and you have fooled me with a lie.

The son in the desert. Oh, that's a thing far away. He was a really stubborn child. He never came back when he went away. We all miss him.

If such a thing should happen again with you, or any of the others, it means instant dismissal.

Many a time in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not really depends on how you look at it.

Feel free to drop me a link to an app that makes this sort of thing enjoyable, but I don't believe such a thing exists.

In terms of the written content, Cult-ure a tour de force skim of ideas, if such a thing is possible.

You might as well not know a thing at all as know it only a little.

Thing, you know, just a thing.

Verily, I am pleased at the progress that this ill-conceived group has made. I had not thought such a thing possible.

Is such a thing as an emerald made worse than it was, if it is not praised?

Well, then, the time's not distant when I'm going to appear out of thin air on your beach, and show you a thing or two about flying!

Who? I can hardly hear you. Just a minute. Turn down the TV. please. I can't hear a thing.

Careers in the creative fields are plentiful, and the days of starving artists seem to be a thing of the past.

He thought it beneath him to do such a thing.

Since you know a thing or two about miracles, I was hoping you could help me stop one.

We know from her previous work that McLachlan is a thoughtful lyricist who knows a thing or two about song construction.

He went away crying, and said he should summons me, a thing I would not have happen for the world.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

It's foolish of him to do such a thing.

"When a boy decides to make a thing of it, there's not a girl that can match him, " one teacher said of a project on inventions.

Roland had sown wild oats? Bink had never imagined such a thing. He remained silent, afraid of what was coming.

Imagine if there was a way you could pack it up and carry it everywhere, without it weighing a thing. . .

I really never could think well of any body who proposed such a thing to any body else.

In the enjoyment of sexual pleasure when not to consider safety measures, out of such a thing can only carry so their consequences.

No, he called it a ''thing''. He said meet me for a drink thing. He never used the ''D'' word.

Maybe it was simply that she didn't wear a bra: even in winter you could see that she wasn't wearing a thing under her sweater.

"We tell people we don't know a thing about the best technique, " he said. He tells runners to use the form they naturally adopt.

Perhaps there has never been such a thing as monoculture society.

What a woman wants is what you're out of. She wants more of a thing when it's scarce.

The banks had promoted the idea that this was a new era where market crashes were a thing of the past.

My life had not led me to come to see rest as a thing of beauty or delight.

I had never seen a thing that had once been so large, so completely destroy in just a few seconds.

As for that salt-on-the-tracks law, we asked around to see why such a thing might have become law.

The allegation that China is cracking down on dissidents before the Olympic Games is totally unfounded. There is no such a thing at all.

Giant detectors built to look for a hypothetical form of radioactivity in which protons decay never found such a thing.

Such a thing had never existed among a diverse people, across a vast continent, with no established royal or military authority.

Young woman student was lovelorn , may throw a thing, cry be troubled by, as if whole world was destroyed, be overwhelmed with sorrow.

I don't think he heard a thing I said. He has total TV face right now.

It was absurd of you to suggest such a thing.

This is not to say that native clients are a thing of the past and that all new applications must be browser-based.

It may be that Twitter is not technologically a good platform for such a thing, as Wang insinuates.

His words and that look happened in a hundredth of a second, but the whole universe became still and I couldn't hear a thing.

The questions are: What sort of reality do we assign a simulation of a thing?

To do a thing out of faith is nothing else but when out of persuasion of God's love to one, I do this thing, merely for His sake.

She tells a reporter, did not get a thing that day, her suspicion is duped , go back again checked, discover or can check.

How does a thing like this work? Because she steps down and no longer the governor of Alaska.

Students have heard a lot of suicide, but to university, which had previously heard of zhejiang have a famous domestic had such a thing.

Perhaps as more humans rise out of the pain through ascension, they will attune to such a thing and cease to purchase fur again.

It plays an important role in social recognition, just as the old saying goes: a thing is the entity of a name.

How to give parents birthday, most of the children are present, small part of a mother to do a thing.

Mr. Wilson says that growing up, he was the only kid in his school who had a thing for calculators.

Isn't the president of the United States supposed to know a thing or two about politics?

n. a thing, especially one of a group of things Most of our wedding presents were household articles that we really need.

I don't understand why they're making a thing of this story. It's just a boy who survived a shipwreck.

By now I know a thing or two about this mouse, which is why I feel optimistic that my idea for a homemade mousetrap will work.

This caused Eponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which she had not yet done.

Many times in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not, really depends on how you look at it .

The guys I met at the party definitely seemed to have learned a thing or two about being charming.

But I don't think marriage is the best solution to a thing like this.

With stops, the trip from Cincinnati to Cleveland would have been significantly slower by rail than by car. Who would ride such a thing?

These adjectives mean not part of the essential nature of a thing.

There is such a thing as opportunity cost, money not spent on Libya can be put to better use easing the pain of the American taxpayer.

(There is such a thing. ) He'll shower you with attention, but beware: You may not be the only chick in that shower!

Yesenia's just a. . . a thing, you know?

My sister happened to come into my room, she said, "Brother, I tell you a thing. "

It never occurred to me that such a thing should happen to him.

A man in passions only pursues communication of passions in his contact with people. When with a thing, he just tastes its flavor.

Youths, through inexperience of obstacles and of their own shortcomings, easily count a thing possible, and consequently are of good hope.

In traditional Chinese culture, one must overcome intense social pressure to say such a thing.

The UN resolution makes no mention of such a thing, though many Western and Arab leaders have said they want the colonel to go.

but, to be sure, it would have been such a thing for me!

there ' s such a thing as a traveler ' s attitude ? ? an attitude of curiosity and receptivity to whatever captures our imagination.

There is no such a thing, in any society, as only one type of university, or one mission of a university.

If any of my children wanted to do such a thing, I certainly would stand in their way.

Is there such a thing as a "wrong" interpretation, even if multiple interpretations may be "right" ?

For months I forget there is such a thing as wind; all that's left is a vague need.

That he never did such a thing I simply can't believe.

your word made me think of such a thing: though the stars shinning in the sky. tell me why do you know how they can fall above. tell me why.

After rummaging in a drawer, he pulls out a troy-ounce bar, a sliver of a thing worth more than $900 at current prices.

I bet you could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.

It's strange that she should have done such a thing.

Her masterwork, "Spark Amid the Reeds" , underwent ten rewrites by Mr Zhang to make it into a thing of revolutionary glory.

Even in her teenage boys' bedrooms, not a thing is out of place. And her boys, Thomas and Taylor, are polite and engaging.

I'm not a woman who falls in love easily, but he. . . he captured my heart; he really has a thing or two.

'It's too big a thing for any one person to change. It's like a big raft in the middle of a lake, and you're trying to move it by swimming.

He cudgeled his brains to understand how on earth such a thing could happen.

I've launched a number of projects over the last few years, and learned a thing or two about making ideas take life, and getting to done.

Elvis also has this little tiger humiliating moment, very scared little cat angry, turns out to be a thing down a thing!

Well, she's had a thing for me for a while and. . .

Oh, how can you say such a thing! You know how I loved her really!

Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing as begging you to give away half of your fortune.

Maybe it could be good and maybe it should be good. But you know how that "coulda, shoulda, would a thing goes. "

Now, however, you're encouraged to ask questions about both their source and various options, even if you've no intention of doing a thing.

We carved them out of wood; there was still such a thing as wood, then.