Example sentences of "thing was [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |
| 2 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 3 | The second thing was that almost never did it matter since the whips ran the show . |
| 4 | And the nice thing was that people used to join us . |
| 5 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 6 | The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent . |
| 7 | The main thing was that the parade by the military vehicles did not take place . ’ |
| 8 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 9 | The worst thing was that it appeared there was nothing they could do to stop it ; the players had hardly a shred of belief left in themselves , and Gower was unable to instil any . |
| 10 | And the terrible , disturbing thing was that there was nothing different . |
| 11 | The striking thing was that like the golden ball Mungo had found at the barrow , these were not of modern design . |
| 12 | But the amazing thing was that , just after we 'd recorded our bit for the Gardeners ' World programmed , I spotted a couple of butterflies fluttering around the garden . |
| 13 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The great thing was that there was hardly any money in contemporary art in those days . |
| 15 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
| 16 | And the infuriating thing was that their disapproval mattered to her . |
| 17 | And now , you see , the thing was that we could see Boy walking into our bar , pausing in the doorway , and we could just say the line and laugh . |
| 18 | The important thing was that we were closer to the lead . |
| 19 | Although the main thing was that he now had clear proof that she was alive , he could see a lot more work ahead before he found her , if he ever found her . |
| 20 | The curious thing was that the lawyers , dentists , opticians , salesmen and accountants he knew did n't seem to do much work . |
| 21 | The odd thing was that he considered life to be at its quietest in the midst of the most thunderous , ear-splitting waves . |
| 22 | The overt thing was that we came in from outside , but I think the hidden thing was that we were women . |
| 23 | The overt thing was that we came in from outside , but I think the hidden thing was that we were women . |
| 24 | The only thing was that it was n't Noreen . |
| 25 | The odd thing was that Carol felt quite safe on it . |
| 26 | The funny thing was that Uncle George had made no remark about the length of time she 'd been away . |
| 27 | In the afternoon I had thought that the only important thing was that I was alive , now I wished that I was dead . |
| 28 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 29 | In B Division , the discipline was about the worst in the force — the thing was that it was not a bad pay-packet plus there was the pension at the end — a big item . |
| 30 | The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true . |