Example sentences of "[num] thing i [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If there 's one thing I loathe about my job it 's having to be involved in examinations , even the GCSE . |
2 | Steve Pritchard , Burnage : ‘ No … that 's one thing I dislike about The Smiths . |
3 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
4 | ‘ Well , one thing I know about Mr Coffin is that he was born in the early nineteen-twenties . |
5 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
6 | Well , one thing I think with our attack at present , they 're attacking erm selected targets and that , and the Iraqi people are not suffering from that , so they are able to keep going , they 're not being damaged themselves . |
7 | But the o the one thing I wan na say is that erm we need to do all we can to keep the c the over-run down to as low a figure as possible , and that 's our job . |
8 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |