Example sentences of "that [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the laws of physics are valid only until further notice " , i.e. until instances are found that falsify them , and this conceivably might be such an instance . |
| 2 | Many donors lay down more or less stringent rules about the use of their funds and these are legally binding on the body that receives them . |
| 3 | For the ‘ dogmatic dialectic ’ , as he describes dialectical materialism , the whole question naturally poses no problem , for each person or group simply constitutes a partial moment of an already operative movement of totalization that produces them and then goes beyond them . |
| 4 | Remember however that current affairs and news programmes are rooted in the moment and the particular local concerns of the country that produces them . |
| 5 | Would it not be killing two birds with one stone for the West to purchase the remaining MiGs , together with the factory that produces them , and then close it down ? |
| 6 | According to the Office of Fair Trading , there 's evidence that some building societies choose firms that bring them mortgage business in return , so your estate agent may be tempted to steer you towards a building society that he needs to butter up . |
| 7 | which only takes four wheelchairs and of course there 's the drivers of , of the minibus things that bring them . |
| 8 | Far from being of a piece with classical theories , computational theories share with early modern ones the nominalism that made them oblivious of what was important in the classical tradition : namely the irreducibility of thought and universals . |
| 9 | Clare Short , Labour MP for Ladywood , who raised the issue in the Commons in January , said : ‘ I think the West Midlands Police were trying to brush the matter under the carpet and it was only pressure from MPs and the media that made them do anything . ’ |
| 10 | She handed me a glass of cider , others accepted a small glass of a clear liquid that made them wince as they swallowed it . |
| 11 | Versace dazzled with psychedelic prints , Dolce & Gabbana sent corsets disguised as frocks shrieking down the catwalk and even the conservative Genny showed micro-skirted green and orange checks instead of the restrained tailoring that made them , made Milan … made Italy the world 's leading fashion force . |
| 12 | But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago . |
| 13 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 14 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 15 | Rebel Males by Graham McCann ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.99 ) — Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean , the subjects of this literate and readable study , pioneered a new kind of rebel as screen hero : they exuded primeval , ambiguous sexuality , and were not afraid of roles that made them look vulnerable , foolish or insecure . |
| 16 | Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’ |
| 17 | He often wondered what they did in there that made them scream and shout as they ran out . |
| 18 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 19 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 20 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 21 | It was n't just fear of him that made them change . |
| 22 | Our three pictures marked A , B and C show three well-known TV personalities — A is Jim Bergerac , B is Inspector Morse and C is the Larkin family — and the cars they drive in the TV series that made them famous . |
| 23 | But stand-in skipper McAllister is confident that Leeds will bounce back in the style that made them champions last May . |
| 24 | The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish . |
| 25 | The mirrors span the entire period from the discovery of the first metal mirrors to the introduction of Bohemian and Venetian glass and their decoration reflect the culture that made them : dragons in China , goddesses in Egypt , Aphrodite in Greece , breasts in Java . |
| 26 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 27 | If people lived mean , dirty , anti-social lives it was their mean environments , made by dirty , anti-social government policies , that made them so . |
| 28 | The task , assigned to humanity by God , was that of transforming , by chemical means , the raw products of nature into a state that made them serviceable . |
| 29 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 30 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |