Example sentences of "thing that [vb past] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | One of the things that helped us over this difficult period was the fact that earlier that year the cutter crews had decided to form their very own association . |
| 5 | Come and see the thing that met us when we rode in here six days ago . ’ |
| 6 | Or are things still fragile at the back ( from over here it seems that that was the main thing that caused us trouble last year , and in some early matches this season . ) ? |
| 7 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 8 | The only thing that will release us is the thing that imprisoned us . |
| 9 | 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 . |