Example sentences of "thing [conj] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was starting to lose track of the things that had made him what he was as well . |
| 2 | After all — had n't one of the things that had made it so difficult to get over Tony been the fact that he 'd got off scot-free ? |
| 3 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 4 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 5 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 6 | It does n't seem much , looking back , but it 's … well , it 's like I was clean before then ; another person , unsullied , untouched by all those darker things that came to dominate me . ’ |
| 7 | The most obvious questions have to do with the elements or components of the curriculum : the things that go to make it up ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 8 | One of the things that does strike me about er particularly heterosexual men and their attitudes to homosexual and y'know homo erotic activities , there 's y'know a lot of different aspects where y'know I do n't know rugby players all get in the shower together and smack each-other on the backside in the name of horse play and y'know it 's not considered threatening or erm or outrageous and yet sometimes these are the very people who are the most homophobic . |
| 9 | So those are the kind of odd little things that help to make our job interesting and a little bit more exciting . |
| 10 | This backward projection is one of the things that has motivated my own work on present-day speech communities , and my interest in how the authority of the legitimized variety is promoted in linguistic scholarship J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
| 11 | One of the things that has puzzled me over the years is the obsession with high protein baits . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's one of the things that has helped me to become world champion . |
| 13 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 14 | Er many of us remember Gordon in the sixties working with a small group to get this place built thirty years on does he feel the playhouse is doing what he then hoped for and if not what are the things that have changed it ? |
| 15 | This is what he hoped for , and one the many things that tended to dispirit him was the fact that it was so little forthcoming . |
| 16 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 17 | I do n't think I could train full-time like MacFarlane and that-s one of the things that 's kept me going : to know that , as a junior , I was as fast as MacFarlane . |
| 18 | There are one or two things that do bother me . |
| 19 | But very soon he got used to these things and learnt to understand what they meant . |
| 20 | Write down where and when you saw things and try to draw them too . |
| 21 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 22 | I have my own way of doing things and have gathered lots of experience down the years in various jobs at various levels . |
| 23 | But the only thing that does bother me about it is when they get you know school kids coming out of school and going straight on streets on Road . |
| 24 | But the one thing that does impress itself on you is that he 's so very competent . |
| 25 | Er one thing that does intrigue me following Phill 's presentation is how the average British football fan will cope with a a Gain Multimedia workstation in Atlanta in the World Cup . |
| 26 | The plane had come to rest nose down , but also tipped to one side , and the only thing that had stopped her being thrown about like a rag doll was her seatbelt . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The thing that had woken her , that night , was Oliver crying . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | The one thing that had bothered me was having to borrow Lewis Luther 's helmet . |