Example sentences of "[adj] thing that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our bed-sitter we used to talk about my cases , the funny things that happened on my rounds , but now , I thought helplessly , there was n't much point in telling her that AC2 Phillips was on jankers again , that vector triangles were the very devil , that Don McGregor thought he had discovered the secret of Sergeant Hynd 's phenomenally shiny boots . |
| 2 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 3 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 4 | She practises her craft by saying ‘ the first funny thing that comes into your head , and if that 's not funny you say the second ’ . |
| 5 | Ordinary things that go on all the time . |
| 6 | The only real thing that seems to be changing in is the compound in position of the oxy |
| 7 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 8 | The general opinion seems to be that the only really dangerous thing that happens during the filming of London 's Burning is Murphy driving a fire engine . |
| 9 | But I love the feel of the magic march , that raw repeating thing that strikes beneath the bosom , rippling through my voice and body , strumming all my toes … ! |
| 10 | standard thing that goes to all of them |
| 11 | That was the puzzling thing that happened to Peggy Pringle , who was nearly nine years old and just longed to join the Pack to which her friends belonged . |
| 12 | We measure happiness and sadness by momentous things that happened on occasions such as these . |
| 13 | This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation . |
| 14 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 15 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 16 | that 's the last major thing that happens to him . |
| 17 | It turned out to have been bought by Richter , and as such was at least one good thing that came from his connections with Peron . |
| 18 | We see our own dissatisfactions , our own pointless , unfocused longings in her and we are forced , because we are shown the terrible thing that happens to her , to question aspects of ourselves which might otherwise remain unexamined . |
| 19 | The nut itself is a curious thing that grows from the so-called cashew apple , and both are filled with a nasty acid fluid that causes dermatitis . |
| 20 | The undodgeable thing that has to be done with the economy |
| 21 | The freezers filled up again , and the commercial sectors of the warren glittered and blazed ; though under the multiple roofs arranged like bumpy plates of armour , many other areas remained in darkness , the only light the sick green pallor of the phosphorescent things that grew on the walls in there . |
| 22 | In other words , the very things that led to the development of the laws of war in the first place are still with us . |
| 23 | The danger of writing when you are abnormally tired — as well as bitterly cold — is that you can too easily lose control by digressing too far from the important things that need to be expressed free of any other clutter . |
| 24 | Only the usual day-to-day things that get to everyone after a while . |
| 25 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 26 | The evil thing that came into my house that night — as Jekyll told me — was known by the name of Hyde , and was wanted by the police for the murder of Sir Danvers Carew . |
| 27 | Well I often think there , there could be something for women priests because they would see the more practical things that had to be done |
| 28 | Even the grass makes more grass , and all the small things that live in the grass reproduce their kind , until summer is over . |
| 29 | This is a central example of the problem , but it is not the only example even with respect to norms , and it will be helpful to distinguish various things that fall under the general heading of a ‘ norm ’ . |
| 30 | Dave : ‘ Human beings , rats and pigeons , they 're all survivors , they 're the only things that live in the city . ’ |