Example sentences of "thing that [verb] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
| 2 | In those days we had not a care in the world , the only thing that counted was the game in which we were playing . |
| 3 | The next thing that happened was six years after the Select Committee . |
| 4 | The Edwardian and Progressive eras were rife with ideas of how film could develop but of all the possibilities the only thing that happened was that the showmen hung on to what they had discovered . |
| 5 | The only thing that happened was that Dad came into the kitchen where Oliver was crying because someone had broken the jar in which he kept his stick insects and said , ‘ What 's the matter , old chap ? |
| 6 | The only thing that remained was to complete the writing of the Green Paper and the small matter of explaining the proposals to the House of Commons and the public . |