Example sentences of "thing [that] [verb] [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 | A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well . |
| 3 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 6 | ‘ It is the only thing that presents itself with the information we have at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That was another thing that annoyed her about the child : she always had to find something nice to say . |
| 11 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |