Example sentences of "was [adj] thing that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was another thing that annoyed her about the child : she always had to find something nice to say . |
| 2 | That was another thing that gave her pleasure ; to listen to Ben playing his whistle . |
| 3 | It was quiet , but there was different things that amused us that the bairns would just laugh at today , I mean , there was no pictures or things like that . |
| 4 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 5 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |