Example sentences of "[adj] thing that [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another thing that surprised me more than anything was , our main supplier of tea , which we get over half our tea from now , is Kenya . |
| 2 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 3 | There 's one thing that struck me right . |
| 4 | The only thing that held her together was her skin . |
| 5 | It was a force that she tried to hide away tidily , as her mother would have done , because it was a dark and hideous thing that shook her violently . |
| 6 | ‘ To me she was , and is , blessed with that wonderful thing that got me so excited about Cliff all those years ago — a unique voice . |
| 7 | It was the same thing that made him physically shrink into his scarf and his leather jacket . |
| 8 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 9 | with this film it will be , you know , compulsory , you wo n't be able to make that choice , erm and the other one , the other thing that struck me just from one of the particular extracts of , of people standing on top of this cliff , erm is , is the way that the importance of , in something like a film where it 's , you know , it 's done for good , you know the importance of having an actual creative writer |
| 10 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |