Sentence examples for the thing behind from inspiring English sources

And the thing behind, I am afraid, is talent, and the canon, and the body of knowledge we call literature.

I understood why Mrs. Doherty's family left the thing behind; it must have weighed a ton.

"We think that probably the thing behind this is freight," he said.

The results of this contact will form the data of the review, without any reference to the thing behind.

In O'Brien's version, this task can be a joyful one, similar to what Marx would call unalienated labor: "We decided to rebuild our home again / In the intermittent sun, strangers with arms / Linked to protect the thing behind them".

Every link promises that whatever you're currently reading isn't nearly as interesting as the thing behind the link.

"I do the work and do the things behind the scenes to do well".

But when schoolboys went on to university they wanted to play the same games they had enjoyed in school, and this was one of the things behind the movement to standardize.

"You could say our European expansion has been focusing mostly on the things behind the scenes," Valencia says.

You don't know the things behind email, etc. SG: But it got pushed down the stack by Twitter.

"One of the things behind this is that the things people have in their baggage with them can be very valuable — laptops and other electronics or cameras.