Example sentences of "thing that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 2 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 3 | Alcohol and the smell of cauliflowers were the only two things that worried her . |
| 4 | Things that took her back to when she was young . |
| 5 | But the things that seized my whole attention were the yellow blobs of pus in the corners of the eyes , the much purulent discharge from the nostrils and the photophobia which made the dog blink painfully at the light from the surgery window . |
| 6 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 7 | When I joined the Partisans , among other things that surprised me was this endless attention to the arms : their constant cleaning , oiling , polishing . |
| 8 | It was quiet , but there was different things that amused us that the bairns would just laugh at today , I mean , there was no pictures or things like that . |
| 9 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 10 | Paul had found all the resources for living , all the things that attracted him , all the relationships that mattered , in God alone . |
| 11 | ‘ They were among the things that attracted me . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ One of the things that attracted us to him is that he is someone who is willing to stand up and speak against something that he believes is wrong . ’ |
| 13 | Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years . |
| 14 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 16 | ‘ Things that struck me . ’ |
| 17 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |
| 18 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |
| 19 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 20 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 21 | It 's one of the things that made them different . |
| 22 | Any other things that made it made it difficult for you to read ? |
| 23 | So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me . |
| 24 | Let It Rock did unbelievably good business Friday night or Saturday morning a lorry would turn up with a delivery of creepers — the very things that enticed me into the shop in the first place . |
| 25 | We sat down then and all the time he was eating Frankie could n't keep his eyes off her or the things that surrounded him . |
| 26 | Conservative loyalists said Mr Tebbit had made a blunder , but he showed no sign of backing off from ‘ one of the things that brought me into politics — the belief that immigration should be reduced ’ . |
| 27 | It was one of the things that brought it about but they they could bury her there , but only the Anglican |
| 28 | He questioned her in more detail for several more minutes , asking about sleep , moods , energy levels and half a dozen other tiny things that revealed his deep concern for his sister . |
| 29 | There were things that you said that I only half understood ; things that startled me sometimes ; shocked me a bit , if you like . |
| 30 | Marian talked over with him some of the things that troubled her . |