Example sentences of "[coord] that [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I holed a good putt for a birdie at the first hole and that set me up , ’ she said .
2 ‘ Then the telephone rang , ’ said Jordan , ‘ and that set us back on our heels .
3 As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them .
4 Then a businessman asked whether he should buy this and that stock his broker had recommended on the sly , and — after a moment of concentration — Kruger gave him the word to hold off , presumably making a mental note to sweep the market himself .
5 ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke .
6 Jackson , who earned a total of £40,000 , said : ‘ I was pedestrian away from the blocks and that cost me vital hundredths of a second .
7 He said and that cost me he looked round , twenty two pound .
8 McKibben had appeared on TV last week escorting the coffin of terror boss Jimmy Brown — and that cost him his life .
9 Erm , can I say that it 's only last year that we organised that video for secured car parks , and employed a blooming outside presenter to do it , and that cost us twelve thousand quid , and that were at Derby and they made an excellent bloody video of it did n't they ?
10 ‘ Then he 'd tell you to go and get another canvas and that cost you three and six .
11 And that end you would do well to have had in mind from the very beginning .
12 I mean , give up the piano and that trumpet you say you 've got . ’
13 And that get us up to a certain distance , but even then that method must fail when you get beyond a certain distance .
14 Break themself from all those things that hold them and that captivate them and hold their interest .
15 It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level .
16 But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before .
17 The OSF press release and its mock shock horror surprise also does n't allow for the fact that Addamax voluntarily revealed Sun 's involvement to defendants ' counsel in October of 1991 and that OSF itself has known about it since at least May of this year .
18 The concept of cohesion is a semantic one ; it refers to the relations of meaning that exist within the text , and that define it as a text ; it occurs when the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another .
19 There was only one shot on the Swindon goal all night and that believe it or not was by Town full-back Paul Bodin …
20 Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children .
21 When we first cloned the human globin genes we realised that every cloned gene is person-specific , and therefore contains the particular sequences that instruct most of the features which we inherit and that determine our individuality .
22 The slighted Samaritan can , of course , reply on her own behalf that she does care about suffering in general but that she cares much more about its manifestations that she can do something about and that involve her personally .
23 The man who accepts authority is thus said to surrender his private or individual judgment because he does not insist that reasons be given that he can grasp and that satisfy him , as a condition of his obedience .
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