Example sentences of "thing that have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at it vaguely and then with more attention , remembering the thing that had sung past my ear . |
| 2 | Anne pushed the thing that had been her sister away . |
| 3 | The import of the Mallion lines could be considered the most beneficial thing that had happened so far in the breed . |
| 4 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 5 | Hoomey could n't accept the awful thing that had happened to him . |
| 6 | The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’ |
| 7 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 8 | So it was a very happy Pow-wow the next week , when Trusty told of the exciting thing that had happened and that the Pack would be able to meet every week in Farmer Olinton 's loft . |
| 9 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 10 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 11 | They did n't come haring towards them as if the mere sight of them was the best thing that had happened all day . |
| 12 | One thing that had puzzled early observers was the litter of ani eggs strewn beneath the nest . |
| 13 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 14 | If he could fix that sight , or even begin to do so , he might yet find a way of controlling the thing that had come to haunt him . |
| 15 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 16 | In word and gesture , the T'ang was a great and powerful man — a T'ang , unmistakably a king among men — but he had lost contact with the very thing that had made — had shaped — his outer form . |
| 17 | At roughly the same time Adobe Systems introduced the PostScript page description language which did the one thing that had been though impossible or , at least , impractical ; real time font generation . |
| 18 | The penal system he worked in was not the only thing that had changed during Nicholson 's time . |
| 19 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 20 | Somewhere beyond , the thing that had been Farley Peters — still locked in the corridor wall — gibbered and scrabbled with monstrous hunger . |
| 21 | The thing that had once been Bissell laughed again , raw plaster splattering on the tiled floor . |
| 22 | And , at last , Cardiff could see that the mutated horror on the stairs was not the thing from the wrecked car , not the thing that had been Barbara 's brother from 1964 . |
| 23 | Down below on the staircase , the thing that had been Farley Peters was trying to crawl up the steps towards him . |
| 24 | The only positive thing that had come out of the conversation had been Nicole 's offer of some aspirin . |
| 25 | The only good thing that had happened to her today after her meeting with her father was that she now no longer had her headache . |
| 26 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 27 | The thing that had woken her , that night , was Oliver crying . |
| 28 | The only important thing that had happened in her life of late was Fen , but that was a subject she must avoid . |
| 29 | The one good thing that had happened too him in his life had come in the form of Jane . |
| 30 | How could he ever admit to Maisie that the very thing that had brought them together was , like so much else in his life , a lie ? |