Example sentences of "the [adj] thing that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation . |
| 2 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 3 | I meant what 's worrying you as well as the awful thing that happened to your father … ’ |
| 4 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 5 | In our bed-sitter we used to talk about my cases , the funny things that happened on my rounds , but now , I thought helplessly , there was n't much point in telling her that AC2 Phillips was on jankers again , that vector triangles were the very devil , that Don McGregor thought he had discovered the secret of Sergeant Hynd 's phenomenally shiny boots . |
| 6 | That was the puzzling thing that happened to Peggy Pringle , who was nearly nine years old and just longed to join the Pack to which her friends belonged . |
| 7 | The undodgeable thing that has to be done with the economy |
| 8 | We see our own dissatisfactions , our own pointless , unfocused longings in her and we are forced , because we are shown the terrible thing that happens to her , to question aspects of ourselves which might otherwise remain unexamined . |
| 9 | In other words , the very things that led to the development of the laws of war in the first place are still with us . |
| 10 | The danger of writing when you are abnormally tired — as well as bitterly cold — is that you can too easily lose control by digressing too far from the important things that need to be expressed free of any other clutter . |
| 11 | The freezers filled up again , and the commercial sectors of the warren glittered and blazed ; though under the multiple roofs arranged like bumpy plates of armour , many other areas remained in darkness , the only light the sick green pallor of the phosphorescent things that grew on the walls in there . |
| 12 | The evil thing that came into my house that night — as Jekyll told me — was known by the name of Hyde , and was wanted by the police for the murder of Sir Danvers Carew . |
| 13 | As he turned the torch towards the door to the house , he gasped with horror , then screwed up his eyes for a moment , thinking of his kids , before letting his gaze rest again on the ghastly thing that dangled before him . |
| 14 | The cap , then , falls within an overall grand vision of chanciness and risk ; Liputin 's teeth are by no means the only things that hang by a thread . |
| 15 | This animation of a plane has six cels in it , and the only things that move on it are the propeller and the pilot 's scarf . |
| 16 | But material resources are not the only things that matter to people . |
| 17 | Dave : ‘ Human beings , rats and pigeons , they 're all survivors , they 're the only things that live in the city . ’ |
| 18 | The only thing that seemed to be stirring most people was their scorn of Chamberlain . |
| 19 | The only thing that occurs to me is this . |
| 20 | The only thing that occurs to me is a mine , a marine mine . |
| 21 | The only thing that occurs to me er er and now yo your veteran day from last year a a does any of that , how does you know , cos he does it , how does any of that sit with Rob or do we just say right well we do cos |
| 22 | The board was your cricket bat : the only thing that stood between you and castration . |
| 23 | The only thing that worked with the odd fish was the open bale-arm , but more often than not the bream dropped the bait before I struck . |
| 24 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 25 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 26 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 27 | The only thing that stands between county hall being put to good use is the Labour-controlled Lambeth borough council , which is squandering charge payers ' money on increasingly desperate but unsuccessful attempts to prevent the sale of county hall and its productive use for hotel and residential accommodation . |
| 28 | Even the grass makes more grass , and all the small things that live in the grass reproduce their kind , until summer is over . |
| 29 | a lot of our erm work is i sort of the statutory things that comes to us , either through care orders or through the court or through supervision of children in particular . |
| 30 | And Leeds acknowledges that one of the things the other things that needs to be taken into account by North Yorkshire if if R P G two is to be conformed with , is the need to revitalize West Yorkshire . |