Example sentences of "the thing that [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have him love the thing that was |
| 2 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 3 | This being the thing that was most often said about him . |
| 4 | That must be the thing that was plaguing him , riding him so hard . |
| 5 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 6 | and the thing that was going wrong was this erm was this problem of the operation of the cadres . |
| 7 | Wunderbar What was the er the thing that was interesting in that ? |