Example sentences of "[det] thing that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But there are some things that disturb me . |
| 2 | And what we in fact the the reason we tell people everything on the phone Ron is that there are some things that pen I did have one here , |
| 3 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 4 | Another thing that surprised me more than anything was , our main supplier of tea , which we get over half our tea from now , is Kenya . |
| 5 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 6 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 7 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
| 8 | Another thing that drew her was what was called the ‘ power house ’ . |
| 9 | That was another thing that annoyed her about the child : she always had to find something nice to say . |
| 10 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 11 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 12 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 13 | It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race . |
| 14 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 15 | So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me . |
| 16 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 17 | But again it 's , it 's another one of these things that makes it really complicated . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's these things that do it . ’ |
| 19 | But you 'll start feeling better quite soon ; a more balanced diet , a little more activity , and a positive attitude are all things that give you a sense of well being and vitality . |
| 20 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 21 | Let me just it 's nothing special , it 's only a circle , but if you were to take that for a , as , as an example if you like as a picture of God 's purposes for us , you see the circle is , is , geometrical it 's , it 's , it 's perfect , there is nothing that is odd about it , there is nothing er , there 's no difference about it , it is perfect and that was God 's purpose and God 's plan for you and for me , that our , that our time , our being should be perfect in , in harmony with him , you think of all the things in your life personally , and then think of all the things in the , in the life of your com of our community , those things that mar it , those things that spoil it , those things that stop today be the perfect day for you that 's not God 's purpose for you they 've all come as a product , a direct result of sin , it was n't how God intended it , it was n't how God made it , his plan , his purpose for you and for me was to live and to dwell together with him in perfect harmony for ever , and there |
| 22 | And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them . |
| 23 | Let me just it 's nothing special , it 's only a circle , but if you were to take that for a , as , as an example if you like as a picture of God 's purposes for us , you see the circle is , is , geometrical it 's , it 's , it 's perfect , there is nothing that is odd about it , there is nothing er , there 's no difference about it , it is perfect and that was God 's purpose and God 's plan for you and for me , that our , that our time , our being should be perfect in , in harmony with him , you think of all the things in your life personally , and then think of all the things in the , in the life of your com of our community , those things that mar it , those things that spoil it , those things that stop today be the perfect day for you that 's not God 's purpose for you they 've all come as a product , a direct result of sin , it was n't how God intended it , it was n't how God made it , his plan , his purpose for you and for me was to live and to dwell together with him in perfect harmony for ever , and there |
| 24 | Women seek to prove that they can perform equally with men , without , however , any allowances for those things that make them different , both physiologically and socially . |
| 25 | Break themself from all those things that hold them and that captivate them and hold their interest . |
| 26 | It was being in a position to suggest those things that gave it the edge . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd like you to consider removing from your life , one by one , all those things that annoy you , that get you down , that upset you . |
| 28 | ‘ Suppose it 's one of those things that follows you round — like Tutankhamun 's mummy . ’ |
| 29 | Several things that make you think that there 's no one in there . |
| 30 | It was the same thing that made him physically shrink into his scarf and his leather jacket . |