Example sentences of "thing [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Cliff Bastin said of his celebrated partner : ‘ The first thing that struck me about Alex was his terrific self-confidence .
2 The first thing that struck me about Dana 's poems was his incredibly tiny script , an almost minuscule handwriting that was often difficult to decipher .
3 That was the bigger threat The big thing that brought them to Orkney .
4 The first thing that strikes you about Jonty Rhodes is his effervescence .
5 The one thing that drew me to Elsie was her disability .
6 Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled .
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