11.   The funny thing was, this was less frightening, even though it was real.

12.   The funny thing, continues Black, is that Walt Whitman used to work on this street.

13.   The indeterminist claim is not, therefore, just that various funny things happen at a sub-atomic level.

14.   When he does so, funny things happen.

15.   The funny thing is that the rest of us have known that for years.

16.   A funny thing happened to me the other day.

17.   The only funny things we heard that evening came from the advertiser at the beginning of the programme.

18.   -- their paths have crossed before.

19.   Funny thing, we had another sort of Anglo-Irishman at our flying school, only he passed out before I did.

20.   Funny thing, she thought as she turned the grubby pages, that people only seem to stop complaining when things get really bad.