Example sentences of "and the [num] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For me work is more fun than fun and the one thing I was never trained for was leisure . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ As for Guns N ’ Roses , I bought ‘ Appetite For Destruction ’ three years ago and the one thing that struck me was just how exciting the guitars were . |
| 3 | And the one thing that myself and my friends all absolutely hated was guitar solos ! |
| 4 | Bill and Kath , along with their loyal staff have put virtually a lifetime 's effort into acquiring the immense amount of stock contained at PAS , and the one thing that really concerns them is that if anything should ever happen to either of them , what would be the future for all the stock ? |
| 5 | We 're Vice Presidents of Somerset Cricket Club , and the one thing that John is most proud of is that he once slow-bowled Dennis Compton during a match against the MCC . ’ |
| 6 | And the one thing that I over all these years I have found and I 've come more and more into is aromatherapy , because it 's not |
| 7 | They spend all their time surrounded by nature and the one thing nature does n't do is lie . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's a rebel , and the one thing he hates is an old family . ’ |
| 9 | … now with the GCSE things are very much more flexible , and the one thing we can get rid of immediately is the written paper , which is of course one of the bits of objective assessment in the examination , and which an awful lot of teachers clung onto . |
| 10 | I think we found it quite difficult to provide the range of services at fully competitive prices and the one thing that this merger will do is to make us much more competitive . ’ |
| 11 | I must confess the moment er Stan Collimore set it up for Webb , I mean it 's a nice ball he does brilliant here Colin , checks the and shapes a nice little ball into Webby 's path and the one thing Webby 's still got he 's he 's got good feet . |
| 12 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 13 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 14 | But erm er so I thought that was er so that was the only thing that I would actually pick up on there erm and the one thing I noticed this time , and you did n't , I mean this was n't the case when you did erm the role play this morning , but this time , and I do n't know whether it was because you had less confidence with what , with actual talking about the product , but you had very little eye contact with Maggie . |
| 15 | Mr Maclean said : ‘ You have big companies here who are trying to compete and the one thing these companies want is a level playing field . ’ |
| 16 | Well there 's a quite a bit of difference between five and fifty is n't there and the one thing is for your educational needs and the other I 'm so convinced about . |
| 17 | To do that you 're going to need the good will of the workers within the centre , the local community , the workers within Moat and the different factions within Moat and the one thing that the Tory line did was to unite all those factions against what the county council wanted . |
| 18 | Well there 's a quite a bit of difference between five and fifty is n't there and the one thing is for your educational needs and the other I 'm so convinced about . |
| 19 | And the one thing that 's so difficult |