Example sentences of "the thing that have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at it vaguely and then with more attention , remembering the thing that had sung past my ear . |
| 2 | Anne pushed the thing that had been her sister away . |
| 3 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 4 | If he could fix that sight , or even begin to do so , he might yet find a way of controlling the thing that had come to haunt him . |
| 5 | Somewhere beyond , the thing that had been Farley Peters — still locked in the corridor wall — gibbered and scrabbled with monstrous hunger . |
| 6 | The thing that had once been Bissell laughed again , raw plaster splattering on the tiled floor . |
| 7 | And , at last , Cardiff could see that the mutated horror on the stairs was not the thing from the wrecked car , not the thing that had been Barbara 's brother from 1964 . |
| 8 | Down below on the staircase , the thing that had been Farley Peters was trying to crawl up the steps towards him . |
| 9 | The thing that had woken her , that night , was Oliver crying . |
| 10 | Was n't it likely that the thing that had got into him at the seance was really from the planet Tellenor ? |
| 11 | And when I left them , the thing that had seemed so horrible to me was transformed into happiness of body and soul for me . " |
| 12 | I think the key thing is to listen to that instinct as it 's most probably the thing that has the highest chance of being right . |
| 13 | The English have always been a little lighter on their feet , a little more amateurish , but the thing that has been happening , I think , is without a doubt the relativization of religion . |
| 14 | The thing that 's suggested just to sort of er bring that round to you to you know rather than just have me speaking , is to suggest that er if I start a sentence er perhaps you know people could join in with the finish of that sentence , you know . |
| 15 | how you gon na know without seeing the thing that 's stuck ? |