Example sentences of "thing [conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , one of the things that depresses me , is probably the main thing that depresses me is not being valued for what I am or what I do and I think many women suffer from depression because their strengths and their creativity are not recognised and valued . |
| 2 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 3 | What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk . |
| 4 | It 's one of the things that gets me down about it . |
| 5 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 6 | The absolute discipline of drama training is one of the major things that helps you all the time . |
| 7 | Well that 's all the things that concerns us . |
| 8 | One of the things that concerns us is provision for people who are unemployed and we are we are speaking and working , speaking to and working with the Labour Group and the Labour Party on establishing a centre for people who are unemployed . |
| 9 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 10 | But again it 's , it 's another one of these things that makes it really complicated . |
| 11 | ‘ Suppose it 's one of those things that follows you round — like Tutankhamun 's mummy . ’ |
| 12 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 13 | the not getting better with normal things that gives it away . |
| 14 | ‘ One of the things that worries me is too many parents allow their kids to see videos classified 15 or 18 . |
| 15 | But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ? |
| 16 | The authoritative parent tells us that we should do things and judges us ; the loving parent tells us not to worry and that they care . |
| 17 | I do n't want to know , I wo n't know said Sally as she put her hands put out her hands as if she was fending Daryl off , I hate you Daryl Rivers , you with , you with your mother who comes to see you often , sends you things and writes you long letters and comes to see you . |
| 18 | The mind puts together certain things and deems them to be of the same kind . |
| 19 | You do n't need , he , that sort of thing that turns you on or . |
| 20 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the only thing that suits me ’ |
| 22 | ’ The thing that bothers me about English training is that although acting is as demanding as ballet or opera , dancers and singers work out every day . |
| 23 | That , er , Chairman , if I could say the thing that bothers me here is that , it always has done about food , is that we should be keeping up to date with information , all these decisions and all this advice . |
| 24 | only thing that bothers you , you know . |
| 25 | It 's , it 's , it 's very desperate and I 'm not saying that you would do it back because of that , but it may just be the thing that influences you to buy a particular brand , particularly the things which are heavily erm which have many alternatives to buy . |
| 26 | ‘ The only thing that rankles me is what she says about Ireland . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Weak form : ‘ The price is the thing that annoys me ’ |
| 29 | the thing that annoys me most is that , the amount of bad memories people have , I mean not bad memories as in bad thoughts , but bad |
| 30 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |