Example sentences of "thing that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a good thing that ye did n't scream , ’ the detective said . |
| 2 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a wonderful thing that they 're all here and all OK , ’ he said . |
| 4 | You need to find your own level with the person , and they certainly do n't need your comment on every single thing that they do . |
| 5 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 6 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 7 | When that went into the paper , that 's a similar sort of thing that they use |
| 8 | thing that they 're aiming at so |
| 9 | What about erm thing that they make pots out of . |
| 10 | Right , here 's one where they give you a little bit of the table This this is a That 's a fairly complicated sort of thing that they give on the table , erm give you the valencies and the |
| 11 | ‘ And so , Jim , ’ said the doctor , ‘ you have the thing that they were looking for , have you ? ’ |
| 12 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
| 13 | And they 'd all got er status symbols you see and it was quite a ceremonial thing that they used to have . |
| 14 | I wonder if they 've got any here now that have n't got any time signatures , because that 's the other thing that they they like to give you . |
| 15 | Because their faith tells to rejoice , but circumstances of life can be such that rejoicing is the one thing that they can not do . |
| 16 | Er you , you , you 'll find that children will , grandchildren will tell their grandparents thing that they wo n't tell their own parents . |
| 17 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 18 | The they gave good employment , stability of employment , good personal pension schemes , good career progression schemes , they put a lot of money in research and development , security of supply was the key issue for the customer , they put a lot of money into conservation , energy development , and of course , one other thing that they did that this government does n't like , they actually recognize trade unions , and had trade unions represent the members who work there . |
| 19 | That was one of the orders , there was a little bathroom down in the in the first floor and the thing that they must not get , was your hands dirty . |
| 20 | Deputy Prime Minister Narcís Serra Serra said on July 11 : " The only thing that they have to do is to stop killing . " |
| 21 | There is one basic thing that they need to do , they or their parents , that is pick up the telephone and ring a contact , that 's all they have to do because within here there are people ready to receive those er t telephone enquiries and get the youngsters on the water . |
| 22 | I think it 's a thing that they wish they could dis-invent , do n't they . |
| 23 | And she baked every thing that they ate . |
| 24 | Oh , yes , but they 're going on that 's to sake of free , at the moment so the last thing that they 're interested in doing is talking to me about if I know what I 'm doing . |
| 25 | Erm , they put the bit of paper in the middle with the suggestion type of thing that they were , and then they all looked for words , erm , then Ian and Deborah arranged the words on the paper to start ar , rearranging the jingle so that the words that they had , they used their resources like that , and anything else . |
| 26 | yes , no the erm , the two o'clock thing that they used to watch , well erm story time it was once and er |
| 27 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 28 | and the only thing that they 've done is if you kiss somebody , kissing someone whatever you know , erm or someone 's dirty and that is the only thing they can put it down |
| 29 | You 've only got to solve the silly simple thing that they give you which is |
| 30 | Cos on ours , we just return the same thing that they send |