Example sentences of "and the thing that [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | By understanding this example you will be better able to set about understanding your own situation and the things that control your own dieting behaviour . |
2 | You have a much greater understanding of your own behaviour patterns and the things that motivate you , and this has helped you established your own list of goals . |
3 | 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 ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And the thing , the biggest thing that we 've been afraid of is death and the things that lead to death like sickness and like infirmity like weakness . |
6 | And the things that lie hidden in this Castle ? |
7 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
8 | ‘ I spent hours in the library looking up all the journals I could find — and the thing that kept coming back to me was that even if you had the treatment , there was a chance that the effects of toxoplasmosis on the child might not come out until years later . |
9 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
10 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
11 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
12 | And the thing that sounded like a telephone number — I wrote it down as soon as we got out of the attic — " One-x-nine-two-four " … |
13 | The ‘ shots ’ icon gives improved blasting power , and the thing that looks like a sergeant 's stripe increases your military rank . |
14 | If you 're really rocking and rolling in the art department and you 're allowing some of the experiments to see their way into print , even if they 're not so , they do n't have that slick veneer that people seem to want in the marketing department , progress results and the rawness helps and the thing that makes Jack Stoffagers pages so wonderful is that they are unfiltered , you have the feeling that it 's the printer talking to you , determining something that he 's read , you know , he wants you to read . |