Example sentences of "of [art] thing that [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholarship and sport and money and poetry : four of the things that mattered to the young Welshman , and something else he needed more : opportunity . |
| 2 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 3 | I tell you , a few years ago when I was lying in my hospital bed , one of the things that went through my mind was whether I would be able to drive again . |
| 4 | We have to work out some of the things that happened to Julie — and what her thoughts and feelings were . |
| 5 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |