Example sentences of "thing [that] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had , in her naïveté or her stupidity — she was never sure which — imagined herself standing at the elbow of a Valentino or an Armani , learning to drape soft wools , to design things that had classical beauty . |
| 2 | ‘ Then there were a few things that reinforced that feeling . |
| 3 | as if it 's just over the horizon , waiting to happen to me , as weird and wonderful as all the things that happened last autumn . |
| 4 | These included things that presented bold shapes and vivid colouring with pattern and texture . |
| 5 | and things that did that thing and washing up and all the rest |
| 6 | The thing that worried many people about task allocation was that each client was descended upon for a succession of tasks by a succession of nurses . |
| 7 | And then she kind of jumped into this absurd thing of suddenly saying that meant that all women were housewives , and that wages for housework was the thing that united all women . ’ |
| 8 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 9 | It was the sort of thing that happened these days . |
| 10 | He wrote the only intelligent thing that appeared this morning . |