Example sentences of "thing [conj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were mostly things that had already reached the west . |
| 2 | when a lady who lived on Dartmoor for many , many years erm was telling stories of things that had actually happened |
| 3 | All those things that had once appealed to every instinct inside her for excitement failed to arouse anything but a nagging desire to look at her watch and wonder what time she could reasonably convince André that it was time to leave . |
| 4 | It just plays things that have already become popular . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Nearly all supporters feel that their relative is not safe outside on their own , they spend a lot of time sitting around at home doing nothing , they can not occupy themselves , they seem unsteady on their feet , and naturally forget things that have just happened … . |
| 6 | Through it we can challenge the status quo , raise the possibility of social change , imagine things that have never existed before , social arrangements that have never been tried . |
| 7 | ‘ It was one of the best things that 's ever happened . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 10 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 11 | Now the sons , dominated by their love for and estimation of the primal father could maintain the altruism and cooperativeness of their way of life because of their guilt regarding the one thing that had always threatened that cooperation — their lust . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life . |
| 13 | This is the most embarrassing thing that 's ever happened to me . |
| 14 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 15 | This is the most important thing that 's ever happened to me in my life — ’ |
| 16 | Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck , the greatest thing that 's ever happened to me . |
| 17 | He 's That One , Mr Body Beautiful , I do n't think , and the worst thing that 's ever happened in Jan 's family since her own husband . |
| 18 | In fact it 's probably the most exciting thing that 's ever happened to me . ’ |
| 19 | It 's the worst thing that 's ever come from any political Party and all associated problems live on , and all we have at the moment is one statement after the other from the Ministers which blame the very people that it attacks . |
| 20 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 21 | But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard ! |