Example sentences of "thing [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I may look like a demure little wife who sits at home minding the house , but darling , I could tell you one or two things that would make your ears stand up on end . ’
2 Robyn entered the tiny shop and bought at random , grabbing anything that was familiar — an odd assortment of things that would sustain her with the least amount of effort , paying her money to the assistant vaguely , absent-mindedly .
3 Things that might irritate you ? ’ she asked carefully .
4 ‘ He 's a good wrestler , a flier , a skier — all the things that might make him an attraction to the Duchess of York .
5 Thank you for the little thoughts of avoiding the things that might upset me .
6 There were one or two things that may concern them ( the scratchy sound of the orchestra for one ) , though nothing that should deter them from tuning in , for the singing was generally fine , with particularly good contributions from the basses ( Michael George and Peter Harvey ) , the soprano Nancy Argenta , the tenor Andrew Murgatroyd , the ‘ cantor ’ Nicholas Robertson and the choir itself , here expanded , of course , to The Twenty .
7 What follows thereafter is building up the knowledge and experience of all those things that will enable us to identify , plan and implement improvements to our business .
8 Because praise is one of the things that will help them keep it up .
9 This has been described as the first ‘ social laboratory ’ where children can experiment with relationships and learn to cope with change , envy , competitiveness and rivalry — things that will help them to develop social skills .
10 Teacher : Tell me some other things that will help me play him .
11 Do the things that will let it go and then call it back into yourself . ’
12 Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent .
13 And so you 're going to work at the things that will get you in there are n't you ?
14 ‘ The bright child is not going to get the time or flexibility to study things that will develop his own personal , social or moral education .
15 The first thing to say is that this is one of those things that can disappoint us .
16 I mean , th there are other things that can give you a hit .
17 Look after yourself by eating a balanced and varied diet of protein , dairy products and fresh fruit and vegetables , getting enough rest and cutting out the things that can harm your baby .
18 Mm , you see , a lot of the er the English scriptures talk about the , the paradise in , in its right context , you can just examine the , the , the Christian script which you might get confused because there 's a lot of er things that can take them both ways
19 it 's not pronounced in mine , but , some er they say that with where it 's gone away , you know , there 's all sorts of things that can prove it I mean the obvious thing is we came from somewhere did n't we ? , we did n't just drop here with a flash of light and er they 've studied plants and other animals and they evolved .
20 Now there are lots of things that can cause you to be stressed , and I mean , I 'm talking about a lot here .
21 These are the things that can cause you to be stressed in your environment .
22 I avoid so many of the things that used to cause me stress before .
23 It is very important to make the point that we are not interested in all aspects of a speaker 's pitch ; the only things that should interest us are those which carry some linguistic information .
24 Jesus our pioneer restores all things and will bring them to a glorious fulfilment .
25 It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could
26 The only thing that 'll touch it is an arc-welder — and it 's pretty conductive stuff too .
27 ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy .
28 This is the one thing that might make me lose my temper .
29 ‘ One thing that might interest you , last year our manager jumped from that bridge and broke his neck … ’
30 The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year .
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