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Example sentences of "[num] thing that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1	A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well .
2	Listen to his every word carefully , because it might be the one thing that saves your life .
3	He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’
4	If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge .
5	In fact , that single action was the one thing that blew their cover , caused the failure of the entire operation . ’
6	There was only one thing that worried me .
7	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 .
8	There was no one thing that made it go wrong .
9	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 .
10	One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children .
11	One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals .
12	‘ As for Guns N ’ Roses , I bought ‘ Appetite For Destruction ’ three years ago and the one thing that struck me was just how exciting the guitars were .
13	There 's one thing that struck me right .
14	‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it .
15	There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w
16	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 .
17	Congress , if as a trade union , and if as a labour movement , you stop going forward in campaigning , there 's only one thing that happens you start to go backwards , because this government will always try and take from working class people , all the time .
18	‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’
19	The one thing that drew me to Elsie was her disability .
20	It 's the one thing that puts me off breeding — I love children , but I ca n't stand babies . ’
21	One thing that infuriates me , though , is juice cups .
22	‘ So music is the one thing that weakens your British reserve , Shelley ? ’
23	There 's hundreds of variations you can come up with , but one thing that influenced me was learning piano in school .
24	You see , one thing that influenced me was reading about the great American champs and I saw how all the good champs were side-tracked , avoided , yet always seemed to make it late .
25	One thing that intrigued me in the course of my meeting with Kagan was his careful enquiries about what duties were involved in membership of the House of Lords .
26	With Genesis , one thing that makes it a lot of fun is that it 's a smaller group .
27	But there is just one thing that worries me : tucked away in the bottom left-hand corner on the back cover of the jewel case is the innocent phrase ‘ Works revised by Roberto Duarte ’ ; it is explained nowhere else .
28	‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares .
29	I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea .
30	One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again .