The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immenselyprofitable. Webcompanieslike toboast about […], or offering services that let you […], "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the realway to build a successfulonlinebusiness is to be better than your rivals at underminingpeople'scontrol of their own attention.
Think ofbankingtoday and the image is of grey-suitedmen in toweringskyscrapers. Its future, however, is beingshaped in convertedwarehouses and funkyoffices in San Francisco, New York and London, where brightyoungthings in jeans and T-shirtshuddlearoundlaptops, sipping lattes or munching on freefood.
It’s a goodthing that television doesn’t transmitsmell.
When I lived with my mum, the only thing we everarguedabout was her foodshoppingaddiction. Everysinglecupboard was chocka, the fridge was chocka, the freezer was chocka.
Give her time, and she maycome around and seethings your way.
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Thingswentwell through the crisp toasts with oiled acciughe, blistered friggitello peppers from the garden.
Thingsstartedlooking upafter Jim movedback in with his parents.
Things have been better since the boss has been laying offa little.
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Alvina Carroll, a streetballer, adds: “It’s not a girlthing.
Regulations have been madeunder the Civil AviationActs of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empowerInspectors of Accidents to do these things.
The freezing raincovered our windshield with ice and we couldn'tsee a thing.
Meaning of thing for the defined word.
Grammaticalement, ce mot "thing" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un noms dénombrable. C'est aussi un verbe.