Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there anything here that constitutes anything approaching a confession ? |
| 2 | She wore a fetching , knee-length black dress and a kind of Spanish headdress that made her look a little like a sherry advertisement . |
| 3 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 4 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 5 | As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism . |
| 6 | He was a keen student of the scriptures , particularly the Book of Revelations , and while meditating in his Calabrian retreat on the mystery of the Trinity and how it related to the time-process he had moments of intense spiritual illumination that led him to formulate a new millenarian philosophy of history . |
| 7 | Les , 61 , whose wife Tracy , 40 , is expecting their first child , has stopped smoking since the health scare that led him to quit a show last year . |
| 8 | I think it was the same drive that led me to invent a series of very complicated games with another school friend , Roger Ferneyhough . |
| 9 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 10 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 11 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 12 | It 's , it 's , it 's very desperate and I 'm not saying that you would do it back because of that , but it may just be the thing that influences you to buy a particular brand , particularly the things which are heavily erm which have many alternatives to buy . |
| 13 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 14 | Someone who has acquired skills in early life for a job involving considerable strength and mobility will be more handicapped in finding work if they become wheelchair-bound than someone similarly afflicted who has qualifications and experience in a field that allows them to do a sedentary job demanding intellectual skills . |
| 15 | But the fact is music touches us physically and emotionally and any music that allows us to achieve a transcendent state of mind is evocative of a new age . |
| 16 | Flcopy is a utility that allows you to copy a large file across a number of floppies . |
| 17 | Use of many of these products is sound practice , and it would be a poor ‘ expert ’ indeed that advised anyone to run a modern aquatic system without filtration of some kind or another . |
| 18 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 19 | It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ . |
| 20 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 21 | The result was a whiplash neck that required him to wear a brace between performances and did not heal completely for three years . |
| 22 | ‘ I attended various social functions that required me to have a female escort , ’ he said through clenched teeth . |
| 23 | Unless customers buy what we produce , at prices that allow us to make a profit , our fate will be bankruptcy or takeover . |
| 24 | The Company can now demonstrate that it has systems in place that enable us to provide a high quality service . |
| 25 | The Audi that thought it had a clear run had to brake hard … |
| 26 | He wrote a 30-second piece for a shampoo commercial that enabled him to buy a house in the country . |
| 27 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 28 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |
| 29 | It was these latter findings , plus the conclusions of the exploratory study given in Part A of this report , that persuaded me to attempt a more wide-ranging review of published literature than one that just focussed on the literature of environmental scanning . |
| 30 | It is self-evident that learning something entails a prior capacity to learn it . |