Example sentences of "one thing that [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 2 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 3 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 5 | The one thing that drew me to Elsie was her disability . |
| 6 | One thing that intrigued me in the course of my meeting with Kagan was his careful enquiries about what duties were involved in membership of the House of Lords . |
| 7 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |