Example sentences of "[vb base] the thing that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is carrot fly the thing that goes for carrots or not ? |
| 2 | Do n't know I would think that it 's , she told me twenty five pounds so I thought it was gon na be like cash or something and then I read the thing that says twenty five pound voucher but it did n't say what for , it just says voucher knowing my luck it 'll be book tokens ! |
| 3 | I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you . |
| 4 | I think the thing that worries me most is that later on , he did n't manage it too well , a lot of other things were going wrong in his life , and at that point the name calling continued , and the stuff that maybe was n't so hurtful early on seemed to become very hurtful then . |
| 5 | I think the thing that worries me more than anything else about them , that a lot of 'em have aspirations erm greater than their finances . |
| 6 | But I think the thing that runs through the whole collection and that makes Doisneau a remarkable photographer , is that he 's photographed the same locality and this is the locality where he still lives , really from the early 30s right through to the present . |
| 7 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 8 | Come and see the thing that met us when we rode in here six days ago . ’ |