Example sentences of "the [adj] thing that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second thing that struck her was on a different plane , but was another restriction . |
| 2 | Let It Rock did unbelievably good business Friday night or Saturday morning a lorry would turn up with a delivery of creepers — the very things that enticed me into the shop in the first place . |
| 3 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , that was the first thing that made somebody show me something about Manson , when I was wondering who Jack Benny 's neighbours might have been . |
| 5 | The first thing that struck her was the cold . |
| 6 | The first thing that struck me about Dana 's poems was his incredibly tiny script , an almost minuscule handwriting that was often difficult to decipher . |
| 7 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 8 | That was the first thing that struck me when I asked you to dance . |
| 9 | Cliff Bastin said of his celebrated partner : ‘ The first thing that struck me about Alex was his terrific self-confidence . |
| 10 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 11 | The first thing that struck me was the weight of everything . |
| 12 | The first thing that struck me on listening to the new debut album by Sam Brown was her voice ; no syrupy coyness here , just a warm direct immediacy which is absolutely winning . |
| 13 | Because the thing had changed so ma , so dramatically from when I was across there , that was the first thing that stopped me . |
| 14 | In fact , that single action was the one thing that blew their cover , caused the failure of the entire operation . ’ |
| 15 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 16 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 17 | ‘ As for Guns N ’ Roses , I bought ‘ Appetite For Destruction ’ three years ago and the one thing that struck me was just how exciting the guitars were . |
| 18 | The one thing that drew me to Elsie was her disability . |
| 19 | It was the only thing that made her restless , and Marguerite noticed . |
| 20 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 21 | The only thing that made my hair stand on end was when I would say : ‘ Dive through that window there and , as you go through it , hit it with your fists clenched together , tuck your head down in between on your elbows , get through and , as you go through , go into a roll . ’ |
| 22 | The only thing that surprised me after our painful , taciturn lunch was the astonishing enthusiasm and goodwill he displayed on my departure . |
| 23 | The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team . |
| 24 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 25 | I remember recording 13 groups in one day , and the only thing that kept me sane was knowing I was getting music together with Enya . |
| 26 | In Conradin 's lonely , loveless world , his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive . |
| 27 | The only thing that kept him decent before was being poor . |
| 28 | ‘ The only thing that affected my sport was my teachers , ’ he recalled . |
| 29 | The only thing that worried me was that the door to my room had not yet been unlocked . |
| 30 | But , at that stage , the only thing that prevented me from saying , ‘ oh well , I 'll go and find a regular job instead , ’ was that I was aware that this thing existed — racialism — and that whatever happened , getting away from it , getting out of the firing line , would n't help me . |