Example sentences of "[num] thing that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Listen to his every word carefully , because it might be the one thing that saves your life . |
2 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |
3 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
4 | In fact , that single action was the one thing that blew their cover , caused the failure of the entire operation . ’ |
5 | There was only one thing that worried me . |
6 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
7 | There was no one thing that made it go wrong . |
8 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
9 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
10 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
11 | ‘ As for Guns N ’ Roses , I bought ‘ Appetite For Destruction ’ three years ago and the one thing that struck me was just how exciting the guitars were . |
12 | There 's one thing that struck me right . |
13 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
14 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
15 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
16 | Congress , if as a trade union , and if as a labour movement , you stop going forward in campaigning , there 's only one thing that happens you start to go backwards , because this government will always try and take from working class people , all the time . |
17 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
18 | The one thing that drew me to Elsie was her disability . |
19 | It 's the one thing that puts me off breeding — I love children , but I ca n't stand babies . ’ |
20 | One thing that infuriates me , though , is juice cups . |
21 | ‘ So music is the one thing that weakens your British reserve , Shelley ? ’ |
22 | There 's hundreds of variations you can come up with , but one thing that influenced me was learning piano in school . |
23 | You see , one thing that influenced me was reading about the great American champs and I saw how all the good champs were side-tracked , avoided , yet always seemed to make it late . |
24 | One thing that intrigued me in the course of my meeting with Kagan was his careful enquiries about what duties were involved in membership of the House of Lords . |
25 | With Genesis , one thing that makes it a lot of fun is that it 's a smaller group . |
26 | But there is just one thing that worries me : tucked away in the bottom left-hand corner on the back cover of the jewel case is the innocent phrase ‘ Works revised by Roberto Duarte ’ ; it is explained nowhere else . |
27 | ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares . |
28 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
29 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
30 | One thing that interests me erm is you know , a lot of the shops have n't survived . |