Example sentences of "[noun] thing that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your salad goes in the other square thing that belongs to the sink . |
| 2 | She was wearing a halter top thing that tied round the back of her neck . |
| 3 | I was cleaning out knives and the metal thing that goes over the knives there was something there and it was a nail and I just pushed and I caught it . |
| 4 | and it 's got like a , a metal thing that comes from it and it 's on a pivot |
| 5 | Ed and Johnny were sporting foolish party hat and blowing those paper things that uncurl like a chameleon 's tongue and go baarrrp . |
| 6 | Her mother was wearing the pink jersey thing that stuck to her all over . |
| 7 | It 's almost always about the sort of fringe things that happen in schools , the not strictly educational erm organisational matters about when to bring bits of equipment and which day the term 's going to finish , but very few schools put much into writing about how they teach maths , or what the children are going to be doing that term as a topic . |