Example sentences of "[num] [noun] that [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 2 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 3 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 4 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 5 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 6 | One problem that occupied him was trying to dissuade Hanns from joining the army : ‘ Do n't do anything so foolish … it seems a hopelessly idiotic and pointless idea , and I can not understand why you want to do this ? ’ |
| 7 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |