Example sentences of "[noun] thing that [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 Well this came up actually on a on a radio sho er chat thing that was open to the public in Blaenau Ffestiniog last night er where the chair was saying erm well you know I mean a lot of the a lot of the people that have n't been very involved in this strike that I think should have been involved .
2 And they , they did erm vehicles for the Navy , the Army , the Air Force and the Forestry Commission , any government thing that was .
3 ‘ Well then , if it was a summer thing that was going he 'd be put in full show regalia ; and that was with his bonnet on his head .
4 They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies .
5 Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting .
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