Example sentences of "thing that [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith , the car 's owner , told magistrates at Eastbourne : ‘ It was just one of those things that happens after a few bevvies . ’ |
| 2 | I started off qua , er quarter of an hour so half ha , it was only one of these things that goes over the top . |
| 3 | ‘ This thing that goes over the camel . |
| 4 | I was cleaning out knives and the metal thing that goes over the knives there was something there and it was a nail and I just pushed and I caught it . |
| 5 | Your salad goes in the other square thing that belongs to the sink . |
| 6 | But I love the feel of the magic march , that raw repeating thing that strikes beneath the bosom , rippling through my voice and body , strumming all my toes … ! |
| 7 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 8 | I do n't know ; the sort of thing that gets into the back of the Eye . |
| 9 | The general opinion seems to be that the only really dangerous thing that happens during the filming of London 's Burning is Murphy driving a fire engine . |
| 10 | And anything that goes in between those disturbs the beam and it causes an electric current to sound the alarm and it 's the same thing that happens with the er detectors . |
| 11 | I see things like senile dementia as being a direct result of restricted breathing over very many years — in 20 , 30 or 40 years you can do to yourself the same sort of thing that happens in an operating theatre if oxygen is withdrawn . ’ |
| 12 | So what 's the other thing that happens round a discontinuity ? |
| 13 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 14 | Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head ! |
| 15 | The ‘ shots ’ icon gives improved blasting power , and the thing that looks like a sergeant 's stripe increases your military rank . |
| 16 | But I think the thing that runs through the whole collection and that makes Doisneau a remarkable photographer , is that he 's photographed the same locality and this is the locality where he still lives , really from the early 30s right through to the present . |
| 17 | In America I tell people who are trying to spell it : ‘ You know , like the thing that runs round the roof of your house . ’ |
| 18 | Baron Frankenstein stands in his laboratory quaking with anticipation ; in half an hour a lightning bolt will streak from the skies bringing life to the thing that lies on the slab . |
| 19 | The nut itself is a curious thing that grows from the so-called cashew apple , and both are filled with a nasty acid fluid that causes dermatitis . |