Example sentences of "thing [conj] [vb past] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 2 | The plane had come to rest nose down , but also tipped to one side , and the only thing that had stopped her being thrown about like a rag doll was her seatbelt . |
| 3 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 4 | The thing that had woken her , that night , was Oliver crying . |
| 5 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |