Example sentences of "only thing that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home my anorexic behaviour sustained me : it was the only consistent factor in my life , the only thing that made sense . |
| 2 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 3 | ‘ She felt the only thing that made the company work was good design and hard work , nothing else . |
| 4 | It was the only thing that made her restless , and Marguerite noticed . |
| 5 | The only thing that made my hair stand on end was when I would say : ‘ Dive through that window there and , as you go through it , hit it with your fists clenched together , tuck your head down in between on your elbows , get through and , as you go through , go into a roll . ’ |
| 6 | Only thing that happens at home is Course Work and Exams . |
| 7 | It takes a year to organize this grand event and it says something for the racecourse when the only thing that went wrong yesterday was the weather . |
| 8 | It 's not the only thing that goes hard you know ! |
| 9 | The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team . |
| 10 | The only thing that gets me steamed up is when they have a go at you . |
| 11 | ’ 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 . |
| 12 | The only thing that occurs to me is this . |
| 13 | The only thing that occurs to me is a mine , a marine mine . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | The only thing that worried me was that the door to my room had not yet been unlocked . |
| 16 | ‘ The only thing that rankles me is what she says about Ireland . |
| 17 | The only thing that ruined the game for me was the time it took to load each room . |
| 18 | The only thing that upsets it is leaving the lid off the tin for long periods during storage when the reaction to calcium caseinate takes place prematurely because moisture gets in . |
| 19 | The only thing that surprised me after our painful , taciturn lunch was the astonishing enthusiasm and goodwill he displayed on my departure . |
| 20 | But , at that stage , the only thing that prevented me from saying , ‘ oh well , I 'll go and find a regular job instead , ’ was that I was aware that this thing existed — racialism — and that whatever happened , getting away from it , getting out of the firing line , would n't help me . |
| 21 | The sheets seemed as heavy as blankets and Flit was the only thing that prevented the mosquitoes descending on us like vultures . |
| 22 | He dared not conjecture , but the possibility of that was the only thing that prevented him from abandoning her . |
| 23 | After his first horrified reaction has passed , Howard begins to think that this fatalism may be the only thing that keeps people sane . |
| 24 | Takeovers are not the only thing that keeps American car-parts suppliers looking over their shoulders . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's the only thing that suits me ’ |
| 26 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 27 | As she spoke she suddenly realised that the whole thing made sense simply because of that , the only thing that mattered . |
| 28 | Russell Reynolds and Spencer Stuart , both with strong UK businesses , had reached a position where being entrepreneurial was not the only thing that mattered . |
| 29 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
| 30 | And little Kirsty 's welfare was the only thing that mattered . |