Example sentences of "[adj] thing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 2 | No he said , I ah that was the one immature thing that I did n't want anyone to say |
| 3 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 4 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 5 | But it 's an interesting thing that you think that because there 's a woman Prime Minister she should choose women . |
| 6 | Do you see that big brown thing that looks a boat ? |
| 7 | Do you feel like it 's almost like doing a different thing that you 're not , you know when you 're actually acting in the play you 're more self conscious and you 're more conscious of what you 're you 're moving and you 're speaking and whereas the likes of the panto you know you just be yourself really with a bit of fun thrown in . |
| 8 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 9 | ‘ These are from the Northern and Southern Railway Company , ’ he said , ‘ to say thank you for the brave and sensible thing that you did to save the train . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed , perhaps the most sensible thing that that model of of consistency , Ki Neil Kinnock , has said this year was , law makers must not must not be law breakers . |
| 11 | But I 've done a generalised thing that could be adapted . |
| 12 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman that every conceivable thing that can be done should be done to ensure that the applicant — the hon. Gentleman was right to say that he may be old and slightly confused — is assisted in filling out the forms . |
| 13 | So it was a very happy Pow-wow the next week , when Trusty told of the exciting thing that had happened and that the Pack would be able to meet every week in Farmer Olinton 's loft . |
| 14 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 15 | It 's the only exciting thing that 's happened here . ’ |
| 16 | This is the most exciting thing that can happen in a school corridor , short of giraffes fighting . |
| 17 | In fact it 's probably the most exciting thing that 's ever happened to me . ’ |
| 18 | What 's the most exciting thing that 's happened to you in Grantham ? |
| 19 | Neville is the typo visual type movement , which someone like April Grieman Type ninety is also in , and I admire this and I think that what Neville Brody did in the early issues of the Face you know just blew me away ; it was the most exciting thing that anyone had done in years . |
| 20 | But , foolish thing that I am , this poor Miss Sally Godfrey runs in my head ! |
| 21 | She practises her craft by saying ‘ the first funny thing that comes into your head , and if that 's not funny you say the second ’ . |
| 22 | ’ One funny thing that technician said , about phetam . |
| 23 | Funny thing that , eleventh November has always been , I docked at Liverpool coming back from North Africa on the eleventh on the Good Friday I docked there , no , I 'd , I , no , no I docked at Liverpool coming back from India , that was about eh the eleventh we sailed from Bombay , that was about the twenty fourth I think . |
| 24 | well it 's er , it 's a funny thing that is because they all gone , now they were supposedly around a hundred thousand look , when they took it on and they 've all gone , there ai n't any there new ones |
| 25 | So y you see there 's another s strange funny thing that can happen you see . |
| 26 | But I mean I must admit on the side of some men , it 's not actually an individual thing that I totally blame it on , although men , you know , have their responsibilities . |
| 27 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 28 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 29 | It gives an extra thing that bubbles off , and what comes out of |
| 30 | I think there 's a more serious thing that we have n't actually touched on which is that many people feel that they are discriminated against when they go for certain posts |