Example sentences of "thing [that] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others . |
| 2 | Clair George , listing the things that had to be done — — finding private money , transferring it out of the country , buying arms , shipping them , procuring boats and aircraft — noted that North had been obliged to do all this ‘ with a gum band and some balsa wood ’ . |
| 3 | But seeing the confusion on her desk , all the things that had to be done , she lost heart . |
| 4 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |
| 5 | There was a whole host of things that had to be monitored by the stewards er on a daily basis . |
| 6 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 7 | Well I often think there , there could be something for women priests because they would see the more practical things that had to be done |
| 8 | Scholarship and sport and money and poetry : four of the things that mattered to the young Welshman , and something else he needed more : opportunity . |
| 9 | Sorry what were the erm things that related to personality ? |
| 10 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |
| 11 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 12 | In other words , the very things that led to the development of the laws of war in the first place are still with us . |
| 13 | The writer has used the plan as an aid to memory , jotting down , in a haphazard fashion , things that come to mind or seem useful . |
| 14 | There 's something special about things that come to us over the centuries . ’ |
| 15 | It 's such things that get to your heart . ’ |
| 16 | Only the usual day-to-day things that get to everyone after a while . |
| 17 | I think one of the things that has to be addressed is not " who does this belong to ? " but " what is the basis for a common approach ? " so that we can get a common assessment policy so that we can get reassessment whenever it 's required , so that we can get packages of care devised that are appropriate to the needs of people and so on . |
| 18 | Some are things that have to be known if anything at all is to be known . |
| 19 | They find a backlog of work building up , in which important but less urgent planning and discussing never get to the top of the pile , being submerged by the constant stream of things that have to be dealt with immediately . |
| 20 | I mean , there must be meetings you have to go to , people you 've got to see , things that have to be organised . ’ |
| 21 | But you 're right , there are several things that have to be dealt with immediately . |
| 22 | ‘ Why do n't we make a list of things that have to be done ? ’ she suggested practically . |
| 23 | When the object of man 's thought is God and the things that belong to God , then the will reaches the stage when it becomes love . |
| 24 | He has taken things that belong to us . |
| 25 | a lot of our erm work is i sort of the statutory things that comes to us , either through care orders or through the court or through supervision of children in particular . |
| 26 | The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws . |
| 27 | ‘ The hotel looked good — particularly the room service — but I do n't think I 'd want to have gone through the other things that happened to Kevin unless I had 50,000 policeman and 20,000 doctors with me to make sure I was okay . ’ |
| 28 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 29 | We have to work out some of the things that happened to Julie — and what her thoughts and feelings were . |
| 30 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |