Example sentences of "[was/were] the [num] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke , I will , ’ I said as if it was the one thing in the world I wanted to do . |
| 2 | Hoomey was more frightened of doing it than anything else , even the swimming , and yet , curiously , it was the one thing he actually wanted to succeed at . |
| 3 | But for the British infantryman , overburdened and attacking up the slope , speed was the one thing of which he was incapable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the one thing you could n't do when you stayed in a hotel . |
| 6 | That was the one thing that got interest . |
| 7 | It would have been sensible to stay where I was until daylight , but that was the one thing I was determined not to do . |
| 8 | It was the one thing I always wanted to do . |
| 9 | The welfare of those they ruled and still more the greatness of the State ( now clearly separated from the ruler and the ruling dynasty ) dominated their calculations as never before ; indeed an ideal of State service was the one thing which they had in common . |
| 10 | She shuffled around uncomfortably , finally deciding to cut the bread because it was the one thing she could at least guarantee not to spoil . |
| 11 | was the one thing fashioned to withstand |
| 12 | In fact , that single action was the one thing that blew their cover , caused the failure of the entire operation . ’ |
| 13 | Needless to say , minding his own business was the one thing Ken was not able to do . |
| 14 | This , interestingly enough , was the one thing the boffins told us : get on and we will stop the war . |
| 15 | That was the one thing he was n't going to have . |
| 16 | Loving Niall , she wanted … needed … a total commitment in return , and that , it seemed , was the one thing he was n't prepared to give . |
| 17 | It was the one thing about Nigel she disliked . |
| 18 | Charisma was the one thing Jamie had never been short of . |
| 19 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 20 | That was the one thing |
| 21 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
| 22 | That was the one thing you warned us to be careful on , so that the benefit |
| 23 | No because the hedging was the one thing I wanted to talk about . |