Example sentences of "[adj] thing that [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact , it 's been one of the most exciting things that I 've worked on and it 's certainly changed my career . ’ |
| 2 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 3 | Indeed , one of the most disgraceful things that we have seen in the Chamber this week was the Maastricht agreement which , in terms of social policy , means that the opportunity to do so much to support the family , children and working mothers has been lost . |
| 4 | The charm of this series will be the little things that they have got precisely right , like the way they shout out the answers on blockbusters or coyly ask about women they adore . |
| 5 | It 's not such a magnificent thing that I 've got pregnant , it 's just I 'm the only one that 's kept it . |
| 6 | He was also expanding his social thought in general considerations on how ‘ the word ‘ civilisation ’ comes to mean more and more : because it means all the things that we have gained , and want to keep and also all the good things that we have lost , and want to regain' . |
| 7 | I think this ought to be thrown out not necessarily on the rights or wrongs of fox hunting but on a procedural thing that you 've brought about where a dictatorial attitude is brought about by the Labour party that have the right apparently to say exactly what 'll happen on someone else 's land . |
| 8 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 9 | I think the most important thing that we 've done is talk about it . |
| 10 | One very important thing that I had noticed since we landed in Normandy five days ago was that no one had any problem with insomnia. quite the reverse . |
| 11 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 12 | Dathan and Abiram for their part reject Moses ' leadership and reproach him with these words : ‘ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey , to kill us in the wilderness , that you must also make yourself a prince over us ? ’ |
| 13 | and the only thing that they 've done is if you kiss somebody , kissing someone whatever you know , erm or someone 's dirty and that is the only thing they can put it down |
| 14 | It is the only thing that he has followed so far in the debate . |
| 15 | But that , as far as I can make out , is the only thing that I 've benefited by , you know , with them being in . |
| 16 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 17 | to include the other things that we 've done , so all I 'm |
| 18 | In some ways that was the classic sound that I had with Whitesnake , but that sound was n't usable in later , more AOR versions of either that band or even other things that I 've done ; all you can say is that it was right for that particular music . |
| 19 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 20 | ‘ It did n't distress or alarm me in any way , certainly not as much as many other things that I have seen that have earned certificates ’ . |
| 21 | What , any other things that you 'd got , but I talked to each group individually , erm but if you want to share any of your thoughts with everybody else I 'm standing in the way . |
| 22 | The only other thing that I 've thought I might do one day is do a country album . |
| 23 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
| 24 | He said , ’ Walker , I 've now known you for four years , and this is the first intelligent thing that you have done . ’ |
| 25 | The horrible thing that I had created was standing by my bed . |