Example sentences of "the thing that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More dangerous than the drug itself are the things that come with it . |
| 2 | Some of the things that come from China er |
| 3 | I tell you , a few years ago when I was lying in my hospital bed , one of the things that went through my mind was whether I would be able to drive again . |
| 4 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 5 | The things that act as signals are their intuitively created trip wires . |
| 6 | They rattled as she stalked , sometimes alarming her prey , and so she scattered them into the sand , to be ingested by the things that lived below the dunes . |
| 7 | He is infinitely kind to all the things that go into his pictures . |
| 8 | Difficulty of obtaining substances , trying to find the cash to buy the stuff , y'know , all the things that go with it , social problems , domestic problems , mental health problems . |
| 9 | Or some of the things that go with it ? |
| 10 | Some of the things that go with |
| 11 | It 's the things that go with them . |
| 12 | Scholarship and sport and money and poetry : four of the things that mattered to the young Welshman , and something else he needed more : opportunity . |
| 13 | A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees . |
| 14 | To have both a family and interesting work means a terrible struggle , and yet I think that those are the things that make for human happiness . |
| 15 | Clair George , listing the things that had to be done — — finding private money , transferring it out of the country , buying arms , shipping them , procuring boats and aircraft — noted that North had been obliged to do all this ‘ with a gum band and some balsa wood ’ . |
| 16 | But seeing the confusion on her desk , all the things that had to be done , she lost heart . |
| 17 | Those are the things that occurred to me . |
| 18 | As for what the head contains , well , yes , Johnny needs some of the things that live in there : will , desire , perversity . |
| 19 | But I mean it 's a subset of the things that appear in Yellow Pages and also contains all the postcodes we 're ever going to need to use . |
| 20 | When the object of man 's thought is God and the things that belong to God , then the will reaches the stage when it becomes love . |
| 21 | One minute he was full of longing to get on with the things that swam into his mind : sorting his stamps , cleaning his sports gear , starting his diary , writing his play . |
| 22 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 23 | You will make decisions , have adventures and then describe the things that happen to you . |
| 24 | She was encouraged , because it seemed she could rely absolutely on that devoted attention , but discouraged , too , because he looked and was so young , and what could he know of marriage and widowhood , and the things that happen to women ? |
| 25 | We have to work out some of the things that happened to Julie — and what her thoughts and feelings were . |
| 26 | In it he described all the things that happened on the voyage . |
| 27 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |
| 28 | The example serves to show , however , that almost any period in history is open to you if the things that happened in the past set your imagination whirling . |
| 29 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 30 | I think that what we have to decide today , or one of the things that needs to be decided is , is the new settlement in the longer term a sensible answer given that all the all the various considerations , and that erm arguing about residual numbers , here or there has to be taken in the much longer context , I think that 's what all I would like the to say at the moment on on new settlement erm because of the situation I am in of not being able to er say too much in detail about it , I sha n't be making very many contributions to this particular debate . |