Example sentences of "thing that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't give a damn about anybody — that was one of the things that was so attractive about him . |
| 2 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 3 | The indignity of peering into other people 's intimacies had appalled me , quite overpowering the acquired , accepted knowledge that reading other people 's letters was one of the things that was n't done . |
| 4 | And you took to do with the things that was happening in the Cooperative . |
| 5 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 6 | Now one of the things that was on the you know there was the great Radio City Music Hall . |
| 7 | Er perhaps one of the things that was n't mentioned this morning is our relationship with with Microsoft in that the the Microsoft SQL Server for a the O S Two environment is actually a developed product er and we have a joint marketing agreement on that . |
| 8 | one of the things that was driving me mad in last part of my career was , I was responsible for documentation , the fuel issues on the , round a thousand of gallons a day . |
| 9 | So it was things that was n't too heavy to carry but things that was always needed in a house and that you could run out of . |
| 10 | So it was things that was n't too heavy to carry but things that was always needed in a house and that you could run out of . |
| 11 | And when said what it had meant to her , loosing personal jewellery and things that was sentimental value to , you know , the family that had died , and they were the only things she 'd got to remember them by , and so on . |
| 12 | They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies . |
| 13 | But the only thing that was important about the film was its length and the ill omens it offered for the future . |
| 14 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 15 | It was a thing that was created by popular demand . |
| 16 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 17 | Further , they would have the satisfaction of investing money in a thing that was calculated to add materially to enhancing the town and district . ’ |
| 18 | And whatever else the decor was or the show was that night , whatever city we were all supposed to be in , one thing that was always the same and that Madame never got rid of was the ceiling . |
| 19 | Another thing that was a disappointment for me was missing the traditional breaking through the ropes and the spectators at the end ; getting the police escort through to the last . |
| 20 | The other thing that was said about him , particularly towards the end , after the U-turn on economic policy , was that he 'd been captured by his officials , and that he also , in the end , rather relished the company of the permanent secretaries more than he did his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 21 | The only thing that was to him suspicious , was apart from the normality of liaisons at the hospital , there was no mention of a man in her life . |
| 22 | She stumbled back and turned into the reaching arms of a man-shaped thing that was coming down on her . |
| 23 | One thing that was clear from the visit of the Aussies is the importance of public relations . |
| 24 | She thought about playing her harmonica , but that seemed to be the one thing that was n't in her bag . |
| 25 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |
| 26 | The only thing that was quite extraordinary was what I found when I got as far as the back premises . |
| 27 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 28 | That that was so was originally was available for the ticket you could actually have some supper before you went in or perhaps supper when you came out and that was the sort of thing that was available . |
| 29 | The harbour wall was made of solid concrete in fact the only thing that was n't concrete was the wood that ran down the harbour wall . |
| 30 | I 'd have him love the thing that was |