Example sentences of "thing that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a good thing that ye did n't scream , ’ the detective said . |
| 2 | And she baked every thing that they ate . |
| 3 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 4 | and the only thing that they 've done is if you kiss somebody , kissing someone whatever you know , erm or someone 's dirty and that is the only thing they can put it down |
| 5 | What about erm thing that they make pots out of . |
| 6 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 7 | I think it 's a thing that they wish they could dis-invent , do n't they . |
| 8 | When that went into the paper , that 's a similar sort of thing that they use |
| 9 | The they gave good employment , stability of employment , good personal pension schemes , good career progression schemes , they put a lot of money in research and development , security of supply was the key issue for the customer , they put a lot of money into conservation , energy development , and of course , one other thing that they did that this government does n't like , they actually recognize trade unions , and had trade unions represent the members who work there . |
| 10 | Did you see this thing that they printed at Type ninety in letraset . |
| 11 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
| 12 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 13 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 14 | Deputy Prime Minister Narcís Serra Serra said on July 11 : " The only thing that they have to do is to stop killing . " |
| 15 | There is one basic thing that they need to do , they or their parents , that is pick up the telephone and ring a contact , that 's all they have to do because within here there are people ready to receive those er t telephone enquiries and get the youngsters on the water . |
| 16 | Cos on ours , we just return the same thing that they send |
| 17 | Right , here 's one where they give you a little bit of the table This this is a That 's a fairly complicated sort of thing that they give on the table , erm give you the valencies and the |
| 18 | You 've only got to solve the silly simple thing that they give you which is |
| 19 | Erm now , so he said erm that 's what they 're aiming for this thing that they want them to do on May the eighteenth plus a sponsorship walk on the sixth of June |
| 20 | You need to find your own level with the person , and they certainly do n't need your comment on every single thing that they do . |
| 21 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 22 | The o only thing that we felt w we could take issue on was on the project resource sheet , erm technical work supervision . |
| 23 | I mean I I know in that budget thing that we put together towards the end of last year , we did n't really look at it |
| 24 | The only other thing that we put is that |
| 25 | It 's also tied to the fact that were , we have less money than we used to because of the introduction of Poll Tax , it is tied to that cos we are constrained but , erm that 's the kind of thing that we get brought into to support , erm and then another area is progressing policy initiative 's in other Council departments . |
| 26 | What 's that treacle thing that we got from you the other day ? |
| 27 | I think the most important thing that we 've done is talk about it . |
| 28 | You 've got to mention in Scotland the one thing that we 've got to be proud of is the children 's panel system because |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm thinking it 's no bad thing that we 've Druim training a militia and extra Hearthwares for us . |
| 30 | S s so w if we use the same thing that we 've just done on our own house and say how can we stop it from happening , might not get a burglar alarm . |