Example sentences of "[prep] the thing that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just the principle of the thing that struck me . ’ |
| 2 | But it was the principle of the thing that mattered . |
| 3 | Another source of distraction is that the initial what-questions ( first and second sentences ) are followed not , as one might expect , by an identification of the thing that inspired Rimbaud and drove him to reach into his soul , but by the pronoun It . |
| 4 | So you write the car 's windscreen , The Sue 's bike , and the King 's head , it 's it 's an owner , plus possession , and the owner has the apostrophe of the thing that comes immediately afterwards . |
| 5 | There was no allegation of negligence on their part and Rylands v. Fletcher was inapplicable because there had been no ‘ escape ’ of the thing that inflicted the injury . |
| 6 | In America I tell people who are trying to spell it : ‘ You know , like the thing that runs round the roof of your house . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Baron Frankenstein stands in his laboratory quaking with anticipation ; in half an hour a lightning bolt will streak from the skies bringing life to the thing that lies on the slab . |