Example sentences of "thing that [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing that particularly attracted her to seeking his assistance now was that he , more than any of the other lily-skinned boys she 'd seduced , had been terrified of his family discovering his stealthy dalliance with the poisoner 's wife . |
| 2 | Because certainly the thing that particularly struck me about these design and technology A levels which so often seem to be sort of er erm a contrived project , not not a real one . |
| 3 | Cos that thing that normally sticks out the top . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not the sort of thing that generally happens . ’ |
| 5 | Curiously , Larry Turman told Arthur Hiller that the thing that finally swayed them towards Dustin was his 45-second spot in The Tiger Makes Out . |
| 6 | Strangely enough it was a tiny thing that suddenly gave her confidence again — her hair . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 9 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 10 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 11 | Death is the only thing that really frightens me — I hate it . ’ |
| 12 | On one thing that really drives me mad about Carter . |
| 13 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 14 | The thing that really motivated me was seeing the 1968 Olympics ; I saw Thommie Smith and thought , ‘ God , that 's it ! ’ |
| 15 | sort of well we ca n't pay this that and the other and the thing that really gets me and , and , you know , I , I 've tried to reason it through so many times but top er top of these mums ' sort of shopping list is these disposable nappies |
| 16 | And if there 's one thing that really bugs me , it 's trendy , middle-class liberals like those who write in Hot Press and their apologies for Provos , puffs , poets , transvestites and assorted other wankers . |
| 17 | The thing that really pisses me off is the hypocrisy — these guys all rant on about how they 're so shat upon because they 're black but it 's OK to shit on women . |
| 18 | The thing that really aggravates me is UEFA 's decision to reduce the Kop capacity by 40 per cent , allegedly for safety reasons . |
| 19 | If I look back on that [ first year ] , that was one thing that really hurt me . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , if you read the collected letters of any writer — if you read her biography — you will always get a sense that there 's something missing , something biographers do n't have access to , the real thing , the crucial thing , the thing that really mattered to the poet herself . |
| 21 | The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward … |
| 22 | After all , had n't these past weeks taught Merrill that business was the only thing that really mattered to him ? |
| 23 | Gunnell had to be satisfied with £23,000 but declared : ‘ The world championship was the only thing that really mattered this season . |
| 24 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 25 | I think the thing that really upset him was seeing Werewolf slide across the BMW 's bonnet to get to the driver 's door . |
| 26 | Because she [ the new maths teacher ] did n't know me , she did n't have any confidence in me … but because she did n't have any confidence in me , I did n't have any confidence in myself , and that is the thing that really makes me regret changing schools … at my first school all the teachers knew me and had confidence in me . |
| 27 | Bill and Kath , along with their loyal staff have put virtually a lifetime 's effort into acquiring the immense amount of stock contained at PAS , and the one thing that really concerns them is that if anything should ever happen to either of them , what would be the future for all the stock ? |
| 28 | The one thing that really marks them out is good preparation , so that when they stand up in court they have n't got to think much about the content cos it 's at their finger tips , they know it , they know Mrs Brown 's age , they know how many children she 's got , they have n't got to think about it . |
| 29 | The meaning is embodied in the rules of the game : to understand trumping and revoking one needs to ask , ‘ How do you use a trump-card , what do you do with it ? ’ psychological terms — like ‘ the trumping-feeling ’ and ‘ the revoking-feeling ’ — merely distract us from the thing that really matters . |
| 30 | The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe — so long as it 's something more than belief in your own comfort . |