Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil .
2 This is not to say that eating out must become a test , or analysing the menu a bore .
3 ANY parent will tell you that eating out with children under three years old is not the most relaxing experience in the world .
4 Nora 's was to start moving that cash around from bank to bank — and even from country to country — in quite novel and unconventional ways , so that when the time came , and there was no cash left to move around , the fact might go unnoticed for … how long ?
5 Yet the Discovery has a classy , Conran-designed interior , excellent seats and ride-comfort and a wonderful , rumbling V8 engine that emits just the same blue-blooded burble as a Range Rover .
6 A buffeting wind rushed over the land , bringing with it salt that clung insistently to Elisabeth 's face .
7 Dressed in a plaid shirt and faded jeans that clung lovingly to his muscular thighs , he was leaning against the door-jamb with his usual easy animal grace , and she was forced to swallow hard against a rush of desire that totally unnerved her .
8 Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt .
9 This is a new idea that receives just this one reference in the paper .
10 He has visited Vietnam several times to search for missing American soldiers , a venture that plays well in his district which is home to a lot of ex-servicemen .
11 But it is a start that plays down the complications of learning about gender and discrimination outside the family , in order to produce a viable psychological theory .
12 The staff that plays together
13 As I mentioned earlier , when you get something that plays really easily and fast you wo n't necessarily get the best sound , and so on .
14 But look at Lionheart , they said that 's , that 's that plays perfectly , you know when you running and those pikes come in underneath you .
15 For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis .
16 And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment .
17 Firstly , that the acid test whether or not benefit is collateral is that laid down by Best J , namely " Is the covenant beneficial to the owner for the time being of the covenantee 's land , and to no one else ? "
18 And that laid there bottoms up when Mr Collyer come up with his throshing tackle at night , and he say :
19 At Leeds , for example , the grid of streets between the present railway station and the significantly named The Headrow , though now much mutilated by modern development , is still that laid out by Maurice de Paynel in the early thirteenth century .
20 But then she realized that laid out before her was a flat surface .
21 It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk .
22 This involves a slight drop in picture quality , but the copying can be done as a part of the editing routine ( see page 82 ) and the loss in quality is then offset by improvements in presentation that editing inevitably brings .
23 They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented .
24 Here 's news for parents who find that bringing up children is more tricky than they thought .
25 The old bullying manner is completely gone ; we now find a persuasive , informal atmosphere , supported by illustrations which reflect the text in their message that bringing up babies is hair-raising , maybe , but lots of fun for everyone — just as the clinical photographs and chaste drawings of the old baby books reflect their atmosphere of stern duty .
26 Mr Chris Humphreys , London secretary of the National Union of Public Employees , warned that bringing in the troops would cause long delays and unnecessary suffering .
27 Statistics show that bringing in a new manager tends not to be a pancea .
28 He said that bringing in internment would be a very serious step , the consequences of which would be difficult to predict .
29 It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true .
30 One of the messages from the Bill may be that bringing in those schemes and making them work is one way in which the engineers can show that they have as much to contribute in cutting the number of casualties as those who deal with the behavioural side of driving and those who build the bypasses that take traffic away from towns and villages .
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