Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] thing that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two things that could be done . |
| 2 | So there were two things that er well or perhaps more than two from matters arising from the minutes , er the Chad for the tickets , I think was one thing that was , |
| 3 | Put the carpets , put everything in and er and we paid for it and they still go ad now course the national union 's taken it over but when we joined the national union there were two things that er I stipulated before we 'd join . |
| 4 | There were two things that were not in the letter which Sean wanted . |
| 5 | There was one thing that might save the mare , and that was only a 10,000 to I chance . |
| 6 | To be deprived of his place on the mission was one thing that he was not prepared to let happen . |
| 7 | If I look back on that [ first year ] , that was one thing that really hurt me . |
| 8 | We 've talked about the project safety training that was one thing that came out of it . |
| 9 | So there were two things that er well or perhaps more than two from matters arising from the minutes , er the Chad for the tickets , I think was one thing that was , |
| 10 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 11 | But as we gradually erm worked our way into the nineteen sixties , er there were new technologies er brought into focus in Brothers , and the design particularly in regard to the stabilizer , was one thing that er brought about a dramatic change er not only in regard to design but in production . |
| 12 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 13 | That was one thing that was missing . |
| 14 | By the way , there was one thing that we did n't mention when we were talking about C P O's that is very pertinent is that already , I 've got it on authority , that one of the C P O's that we 've employed as a civilian has been offered a job with an alarm company at fifteen thousand a year |
| 15 | You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . |