Example sentences of "thing that [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 2 | And another thing that sometimes had to be done was writing out off er the they did n't put er notices in shop windows or anything . |
| 3 | The family wanted a three inch carving of the bear on the headstone , to symbolise the only thing that ever belonged to tragic Sophie , but the church has said no . |
| 4 | My life would have been much poorer without Brownsea Island , and I always think that the National Trust was the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 5 | It 's the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me ! ) . |
| 6 | It was the best thing that ever happened to me , really , to be asked by my hero . |
| 7 | He now has four children , and insists that having kids early ‘ was the greatest thing that ever happened to me . |
| 8 | Kathy : Scott is the best thing that ever happened to us . |
| 9 | The most moving thing that ever happened to them , they say — but secretly I think it is all to do with stealing thunder from the women . |
| 10 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 11 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 12 | I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 13 | ‘ Cancer best thing that ever happened to me ’ |
| 14 | NEW Zealander Mary-Jane Hilton means every word when she says cancer was the best thing that ever happened to her . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it sounds terrible but I 'm awfully glad I had cancer it was the best thing that ever happened to me , ’ she said . |
| 16 | But this week 's award goes to MR CLIFF RICHARD , for his assertion that , ‘ I could do a nude video and it would be the biggest thing that ever happened in Britain . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm the biggest thing that ever happened in sports . |