Example sentences of "thing that [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
| 2 | The other thing that might contribute to er er improving matters would be if the compensation arrangements er were such that the er fund managers were involved in having to provide some of the compensa compensation if there were any to be paid , then there 's obviously a very good incentive for them to police themselves more thoroughly . |
| 3 | As you say it 's the sort of thing that might appeal to people because then they can go and look at their poster . |
| 4 | Morals began to lose their meaning and people said anything that came into their heads , the sort of thing that used to appear in books as a row of stars or be written down on slips of paper and handed to judges in court . |
| 5 | I am afraid I am cynical enough to believe this is just another round of a giant game of poker , where the only thing that will matter in the end will be the size of the cheque . |
| 6 | Because that 's that 's a thing that will apply to all subjects . |
| 7 | That 's the kind of thing that will get to you and make a difference in eight months of being in a popular band with a lot of money . |
| 8 | It 's about ordinary people in an ordinary world and the most special thing that can happen to anybody is to fall in love , and the worst is to fall out of love . |
| 9 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |
| 10 | Remind yourself that blushing is not the worst thing that can happen to you . |
| 11 | That is the worst thing that can happen to a human being . |
| 12 | Then , when everything fell apart so quickly , that scared me even more , because failing at something like that is just about the most frightening thing that can happen to you . ’ |
| 13 | Like the other parties , it knows full well that extremism is the worst thing that can happen to a good cause . |
| 14 | This is the most exciting thing that can happen in a school corridor , short of giraffes fighting . |
| 15 | If I do this what is the worst thing that could happen to me ? |
| 16 | ‘ If Barry was reinstated , it would be the best thing that could happen to us . ’ |
| 17 | She saw that to stay here under his wing would be the best thing that could happen to her . |
| 18 | JEWKES : Maybe I am , for to rob him of yourself would be the worst thing that could happen to him . |
| 19 | Perhaps that was the worst thing that could happen to a human being . |
| 20 | It 's er , well you see G E C took over er and that 's the worse thing that could happen to anyone , er cos is an accountant and manufacturers . |
| 21 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 22 | Well joking apart that 's the sort of thing that could happen to kids and er you you know you wonder why parents let them out . |
| 23 | And last night , when he had ingested an almond — the absolutely worst thing that could happen to him — something good had happened . |
| 24 | The best thing that could happen for Mr. Lennon and his friends would be if the military wing of Sinn Fein stopped trying to blow up Belfast . |