Example sentences of "[det] thing that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry I have n't written since then , but I 've felt very confused about some things that happened with us and you did n't seem to want to say any more . |
| 2 | Another thing that sticks in my gut big time is that whenever I mention I 'm a Leeds United fan , peoples first reaction is that ‘ Oh you were so lucky to win the league two years ago ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ This thing that goes over the camel . |
| 4 | It 's such things that get to your heart . ’ |
| 5 | I started off qua , er quarter of an hour so half ha , it was only one of these things that goes over the top . |
| 6 | Although Norman 's actually ticked that the project manager was gon na be responsible for certain things I think it 's one of these things that need to be brought out . |
| 7 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 8 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 9 | I like all things that grow from the soil . |
| 10 | Though all things that exist in the extra-mental world are particulars and singular , it is nevertheless possible for us to form essentially general or abstract ideas . |
| 11 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 12 | Well there 's so many things that get into carrots are n't there ? |
| 13 | Aye , well I mean that There 's there 's so many things that go through your mind that In a situation like that . |
| 14 | There were many things that pulled at me . |
| 15 | So many things that rely on new techniques are in the pipeline for consumers , such as interactive compact discs where you can see and hear , and choose or even change , sound and vision on your TV , satellite broadcasts for instant world news and events , liquid crystal displays ( called LCDs ) will replace our aging CRTs ( cathode ray tubes ) so we can watch HDTV ( high definition TV ) . |
| 16 | They 're going to work in leisure industries , in caring services , in education , all those things that go with what we think as a good life , and indeed , coming back to the third world , that 's the very kind of thing that we need in African villages and India — agriculturalists , erm teachers , health workers and so on . |
| 17 | It 's just one of those things that happens at parties ; people do get drunk and they do do things they would n't normally think of . |
| 18 | Smith , the car 's owner , told magistrates at Eastbourne : ‘ It was just one of those things that happens after a few bevvies . ’ |
| 19 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 20 | Then , as Alex Saward , Harlequins ' press officer , put it , ‘ one of those things that happen in rugby ’ happened . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 22 | But you 're right , there are several things that have to be dealt with immediately . |
| 23 | And anything that goes in between those disturbs the beam and it causes an electric current to sound the alarm and it 's the same thing that happens with the er detectors . |
| 24 | ‘ Same thing that happened to Daniel , I expect . ’ |