Example sentences of "thing that have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk .
2 These may be interpretations of current experiences , predictions about future events , or recollections of things that have happened in the past .
3 What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play .
4 They want to know what ‘ Cool As F— ’ means when they 're just things that have come off the top of your head and you 've stuck on a T-shirt . ’
5 Regional Railways : ‘ Best thing that 's happened to the valley in years ’ Lynne Edmunds hears how the Welsh have bucked the trend by stoking up regeneration of their train services
6 People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’
7 Well that 's er that 's another thing that 's happened within the British Steel 's er scheme , the Chairman seems to be elected in himself or by the company , it 's certainly not e elected by the Trustee Board and er a and we would like to see
8 but er , any thing that 's put in the spare room and left , that 's when you get wood worm
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