Example sentences of "[adj] thing [that] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | She practises her craft by saying ‘ the first funny thing that comes into your head , and if that 's not funny you say the second ’ . |
| 2 | That 's about the only good thing that came out of that bank job ! |
| 3 | It turned out to have been bought by Richter , and as such was at least one good thing that came from his connections with Peron . |
| 4 | Fleshly , heavy things that come back to mock and torment you ! ’ |
| 5 | some of your constants go but your important thing that comes out is this |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it . |
| 8 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 9 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | now there 's another big thing that comes into it integration involves |
| 12 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 13 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 14 | That remi you 've C Cynthia saying that reminds me of the other thing that came out in feedback . |
| 15 | But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports . |