Example sentences of "thing that [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure that 's the first thing that registered once you 'd assessed his financial potential — ’ |
| 2 | This was the thing that came up previously about er , dispatch of a report not being recorded anywhere , because of that was a compliment slip which a photocopy was n't kept and so we erm , therefore have to have a note made on the client contact form to say it 's gone . |
| 3 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 4 | This in turn made the looking harder , but eased the pressure to accept the first thing that came along . |
| 5 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 6 | That 's about the only good thing that came out of that bank job ! |
| 7 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 8 | We 've talked about the project safety training that was one thing that came out of it . |
| 9 | But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports . |
| 10 | That remi you 've C Cynthia saying that reminds me of the other thing that came out in feedback . |
| 11 | We do n't of course see the kind of thing that went on in Germany under Hitler , but you feel a disaster is waiting , another disaster of some kind is waiting . |
| 12 | ‘ Basically , the thing that went down between Jon and me was more of a band kind of thing than anything really personal . |
| 13 | One thing that went seriously wrong is that we did n't hear more of Neil Kinnock speaking as he did amid the wreckage of his political hopes and personal career . |
| 14 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 15 | It was an ever increasing thing that blew up because it got a little too big , but it did make David a star and he has dealt with it really well , and is a man who does wonderful work . |
| 16 | the sort of thing that cropped up . |
| 17 | The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’ |
| 18 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 19 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 20 | It was n't the kind of thing that had ever been heard on Detroit radio before , but for a while it seemed to be going okay . |
| 21 | Now the sons , dominated by their love for and estimation of the primal father could maintain the altruism and cooperativeness of their way of life because of their guilt regarding the one thing that had always threatened that cooperation — their lust . |
| 22 | The thing that had once been Bissell laughed again , raw plaster splattering on the tiled floor . |
| 23 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 24 | Just another point of interest to you people just a little thing that dropped out was that Mr er Mr died |
| 25 | The only thing that did n't work was the understanding that we had to be big time very quickly . |
| 26 | The only thing that did n't work for him was his marriage , perhaps his wife will give you a different side … do n't tell me that you did n't know he was married and separated , Mr Millet … bit bloody thin on the groundwork , are n't you ? ’ |
| 27 | The only thing that did n't say was a letter from , Headmaster of the County Primary School . |
| 28 | Teller went to extreme lengths to rescue Part I , but in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ The programme we had in 1949 was a tortured thing that did not make a great deal of technical sense . |
| 29 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 30 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |