Example sentences of "of thing [that] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , there were friends who thought that the Shaffer play was just the sort of thing that Kenneth Williams needed to do . |
| 2 | the same sort of thing that Noel bought last year when he saw one of the men in the village , using it to pull out a lot of weed from undergrowth , really |
| 3 | It is certainly the sort of thing that Garel-Jones says in private because he often describes himself and his family in similar terms . |
| 4 | By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression . |
| 5 | But erm that is the sort of thing that Locke had in mind . |
| 6 | I had to smile ; the outburst was outrageous , but it was the type of thing that John would have laughed about . |
| 7 | Well it makes me very bitter because the , this is the sort of thing that John and I we were going over one thing after the other . |
| 8 | Maggie knew , even as she heard it , that Phoebe did not mean anything of the sort ; it was the kind of thing that Rachel dragged you into saying . |
| 9 | He was wearing some kind of rock ‘ n ’ roll suit , the sort of thing that Jerry Lee Lewis might have worn — or more likely the duds you 'd see on a young country buck in one of those dreadful fifties US musicals like Carousel or County Fair . |