Example sentences of "thing that [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
3 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
4 | One thing that intrigued me in the course of my meeting with Kagan was his careful enquiries about what duties were involved in membership of the House of Lords . |
5 | That was another thing that annoyed her about the child : she always had to find something nice to say . |