Example sentences of "thing [that] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say and do things that shock me . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 3 | One of the things that distinguish teaching as a profession is the extent to which people 's implicit personal philosophies are constantly and necessarily relevant to their professional impact . |
| 4 | Do n't be afraid to ask questions , to talk about things that upset you . |
| 5 | Things that upset them could be an uninvited intruder through the cat flap , a row with another cat , even the arrival of a new three-piece suite . |
| 6 | And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them . |
| 7 | As you start to think about the things that make you anxious you realize that the passage is telling you not to be anxious but to pray with thanksgiving ! |
| 8 | Women seek to prove that they can perform equally with men , without , however , any allowances for those things that make them different , both physiologically and socially . |
| 9 | ‘ There are a lot of things that make Milton so good , but the most important is that he wants to do it , ’ says John . |
| 10 | It simply refers to all the things the retailer does to look after the customers — the things that make them enjoy visiting that shop or store . |
| 11 | The little things that drive our family mad and the wonderful things that make them love us . |
| 12 | But the very things that make the hay rich are the things that now make it poor . |
| 13 | First , we can make a list of the things that we are holding against others , things that are bothering us , causing pain , things that make life miserable . |
| 14 | Let's make a pattern with the things that make triangles . |
| 15 | I do n't see the point of doing things that make it sound completely unlike a guitar . |
| 16 | As Bartholomew puts it ‘ … your minds have programmed you against wealth and pleasure , against things that make your eyes sparkle and your feet dance . ’ |
| 17 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 18 | And most things that make people dislike Maastricht are aspects of the Community that predated it . |
| 19 | The things that make a modern killer PC , such as swift video performance , are irrelevant for network servers — so mundane is their existence that they can do without a screen or a keyboard . |
| 20 | THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE A HOME |
| 21 | And , as always , it 's the little things that make the difference . |
| 22 | Why could n't Jim see that it 's the little things that make all the difference ? |
| 23 | Several things that make you think that there 's no one in there . |
| 24 | It 's precisely those things that make the pain so … never mind . |
| 25 | You dress casually , you do n't care about all the things that make a city tick — finance , politics , big business — and when you 're working , you live in a makebelieve world most of the time . ’ |
| 26 | And Hilary had dash , and style , and good looks — all the usual things that make a schoolboy hero . |
| 27 | Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another . |
| 28 | The list of things that make TOP — Time outs , Improvement Teams , TOP Tips , Customer Supplier Workshops , Process Analysis Teams etc . |
| 29 | These are the things that make us afraid , and we build ourselves secure places so as that we ca n't or do n't have any need to be afraid . |
| 30 | But the six-day week , the 7.5 hour shift and the other things that make Asforby possible would be impossible if things were left to the National Union of Mineworkers . |