Example sentences of "thing that [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane had come to rest nose down , but also tipped to one side , and the only thing that had stopped her being thrown about like a rag doll was her seatbelt . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The thing that had woken her , that night , was Oliver crying . |
| 4 | How could he ever admit to Maisie that the very thing that had brought them together was , like so much else in his life , a lie ? |
| 5 | The one thing that had bothered me was having to borrow Lewis Luther 's helmet . |
| 6 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 7 | He 's the only thing that has kept me going . |
| 8 | The essential driving force is always difficult to define but the one thing that has struck me about is his intolerance of injustice wherever it presents itself . |
| 9 | ‘ Wickedly wasteful , I know , but I smashed it , and set up a new one and I have painted upon that new one the first thing that has given me real pleasure for years , oh , years and years . |