Example sentences of "[adj] thing [that] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The real thing that shocks me is my own stupidity , ’ Sabine said curtly , brushing away the caressing hand . |
| 3 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 4 | The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team . |
| 5 | The only thing that gets me steamed up is when they have a go at you . |
| 6 | The only thing that worried me was that the door to my room had not yet been unlocked . |
| 7 | ‘ The only thing that rankles me is what she says about Ireland . |
| 8 | The only thing that upsets it is leaving the lid off the tin for long periods during storage when the reaction to calcium caseinate takes place prematurely because moisture gets in . |
| 9 | The only thing that surprised me after our painful , taciturn lunch was the astonishing enthusiasm and goodwill he displayed on my departure . |
| 10 | He dared not conjecture , but the possibility of that was the only thing that prevented him from abandoning her . |
| 11 | But , at that stage , the only thing that prevented me from saying , ‘ oh well , I 'll go and find a regular job instead , ’ was that I was aware that this thing existed — racialism — and that whatever happened , getting away from it , getting out of the firing line , would n't help me . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the only thing that suits me ’ |
| 13 | The only thing that lets it down in this area is a slightly off-centre truss rod cover . |
| 14 | No the only thing that consumed me I was looking to see if there was anyway that material from the seat could be used to sort of target us for a mailing system or something like that |
| 15 | only thing that bothers you , you know . |
| 16 | she said oh yes you will , then she said to me I 'm sorry to tell you you did n't make , she said you made exc , but she said I do n't want you to feel erm disgruntled she said because er , you done a fabulous interview , the only thing that let you down was of lack of experience , so I said well you 're never gon na get any cos you , nobody let's you in , they do n't open the door |
| 17 | The only thing that spoilt it was the absence of Robert . |
| 18 | In Conradin 's lonely , loveless world , his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive . |
| 19 | The only thing that kept him decent before was being poor . |
| 20 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 21 | I remember recording 13 groups in one day , and the only thing that kept me sane was knowing I was getting music together with Enya . |
| 22 | ‘ His work is the only thing that sustains him , ’ Ketura said . |
| 23 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |
| 24 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 25 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 26 | But Eubank had only harsh words for Piper saying : ‘ The only thing that impressed me about him was that you could see he was thinking about what he was doing . |
| 27 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 28 | The only thing that stopped him was that he could n't decide exactly what the problem was . |
| 29 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 30 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |