Example sentences of "thing that have [verb] " 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 | One thing that had puzzled early observers was the litter of ani eggs strewn beneath the nest . |
| 4 | In word and gesture , the T'ang was a great and powerful man — a T'ang , unmistakably a king among men — but he had lost contact with the very thing that had made — had shaped — his outer form . |
| 5 | The penal system he worked in was not the only thing that had changed during Nicholson 's time . |
| 6 | And when I left them , the thing that had seemed so horrible to me was transformed into happiness of body and soul for me . " |
| 7 | The thing that had woken her , that night , was Oliver crying . |
| 8 | I looked at it vaguely and then with more attention , remembering the thing that had sung past my ear . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | The one thing that had bothered me was having to borrow Lewis Luther 's helmet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If he could fix that sight , or even begin to do so , he might yet find a way of controlling the thing that had come to haunt him . |
| 13 | The only positive thing that had come out of the conversation had been Nicole 's offer of some aspirin . |
| 14 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 15 | Was n't it likely that the thing that had got into him at the seance was really from the planet Tellenor ? |
| 16 | The import of the Mallion lines could be considered the most beneficial thing that had happened so far in the breed . |
| 17 | Hoomey could n't accept the awful thing that had happened to him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 20 | They did n't come haring towards them as if the mere sight of them was the best thing that had happened all day . |
| 21 | The only good thing that had happened to her today after her meeting with her father was that she now no longer had her headache . |
| 22 | The only important thing that had happened in her life of late was Fen , but that was a subject she must avoid . |
| 23 | The one good thing that had happened too him in his life had come in the form of Jane . |
| 24 | Well , that just proved what a lot of mumbo-jumbo it all was , because the last thing that had happened had been that Luke infuriating Calder had exhibited any signs of being attracted to her … and vice versa ! |
| 25 | Now I 'm gon na leave it there , 'cos one thing that 's emerged is that even though you 've had this sheet with the diagram to tell you how to do it , you ca n't do you ca n't do it yet . |
| 26 | Okay so we 'll let U be this thing that 's raised to a power . |
| 27 | Er and similarly the syntax of languages are often said to be oppressive of women , a lot of the way that language is structured and a lot of the words that you get in a language , that 's another thing that 's said . |
| 28 | The one good thing that 's come out of this is that the speculators have been shaken out . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's this competitive rugby survey thing that 's come round from The Times , ’ said Reg Certes , the club secretary . |
| 30 | I 've just had a a quick word with Maureen , this is another thing that 's come up . |