Example sentences of "thing that [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course it was the unspeakable thing that it was , about which so many details were now known , about which words failed . |
| 2 | pupils involved because every piece of work that a kid does is discussed with the pupil the only thing that I was a little wary about was a pupil actually putting down Mr is |
| 3 | because other things , oh one other thing that I was particularly keen that was taken into consideration is applications for training . |
| 4 | Mind you , the only thing that I was thinking of , do you know when he was commuting |
| 5 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
| 6 | ‘ And it 's a lucky thing that he was recorded as much as he was . |
| 7 | To be deprived of his place on the mission was one thing that he was not prepared to let happen . |
| 8 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 9 | but the thing that he was |