Example sentences of "something that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 2 | But no I mean as I say some of the content was was was very interesting and er the concept is er well it 's something that excites me . |
| 3 | Tell me something that cheered you recently , Mr Bodenland . |
| 4 | So anxiety would be , you see , would be something that points out what I 'm calling this realistic view of human nature . |
| 5 | It is often impossible to say what moves you in a poem ; somehow in this poem there is something that touches my heart and links me in sympathy to this Bolivian poet whom I shall never meet . |
| 6 | But , I think it 's insane making criminals out of a huge percentage of our population , particularly when it is something that involves morality . ’ |
| 7 | I always name the team equal after a number of rounds and finish with something that involves everyone . |
| 8 | Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme . |
| 9 | Not just a religious movement , but something that involves and enmeshes every area of life , from high national , and international politics , right the way down to the very colour of the , of the latest fashions , the new age movement and sometime in the future we 're gon na lo , talk a little bit about that . |
| 10 | Well you 've just you 've just er allow you 've just said something that allows me er to bring in er the way in which we approach advertising sales er Robert because er all of us who 've been in tra traditional sales , and I 'm I 'm just er that was my background as well er in addition to recruitment , er we are not used to giving everything over the phone before we go to see the people . |
| 11 | Let's move on to the er to the third question there , just any quick points that anybody wants to make erm not necessarily things you talked about , something that occurs to you know perhaps . |
| 12 | Breakfast is something that sounds healthy such as a wholewheat cereal with no sugar added , or a thin slice of unbuttered toast with a free-range egg on top . |
| 13 | Stick that lot together along with the teeniest , faintest soupçon of banjo , and you 've got something that sounds almost like a miniature piano . |
| 14 | You 're trying for something that 's funky , something that sounds good , and you just grab whatever comes to hand . |
| 15 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 16 | The real treat of the evening , however , is their version of Bowie 's ‘ She Shook Me Cold ’ where poppy nostalgia is transformed into something that sounds like the soundtrack for a Kenneth Anger movie . |
| 17 | Already they 've scaled up their fluid star-burst psychedelia into something that sounds more suited to outdoor festivals than stuffed solid mini-venues . |
| 18 | When they hear something that sounds like prey , they move their heads until the frequency is the same in both ears , then keep their heads exactly in position and fly straight towards the sound . |
| 19 | She recalled Alain Gebrec 's warning that the edge was unstable in places ; panic threatened to take over ; she was on the point of abandoning the whole insane exercise when , almost at the very edge of the cliff , she spotted something that gleamed in the sun . |
| 20 | White elders today , and even more so black elders who arrived in the 1950s , belong to a cohort that has often experienced assessment in earlier life as something that selects or rejects . |
| 21 | Arty was sitting up in bed , his hair shining from a liberal application of something that looked and smelled like perfumed vaseline and came from a jar labelled Easi-Gro . |
| 22 | The little blue trolls from space , the black-eyed pointy-chinned grey things in charge , the anal probing they inflicted on Christopher Walken inside something that looked like it might have been a UFO , event he awe-inspiring ham standard of Walken 's performance — they were all OK . |
| 23 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 24 | Tabitha spent a valuable minute dragging out from under a heap something that looked promising but proved to be a caustic diffraction coil . |
| 25 | Among the blocks there were other large items embedded in the hump : a skeletal pylon , a diminishing spiral of linked , vitreous bubbles — and something that looked like the front end of an asteroid cruncher , a large sub-warp ship with front-opening doors big enough to engulf space rocks . |
| 26 | Lots of girls got put on report for wearing each other 's clothes — usually for visits , when they 'd want to borrow something that looked good . |
| 27 | He looked at Alina , wanting to ask her what she 'd done ; but she was standing just out of his reach , and watching him with something that looked like compassion . |
| 28 | She came back later with a shopping bag full of something that looked like boxes . |
| 29 | Through the window , Carl saw a man in a white coat run out from under the plane with something that looked like a grenade in his hand . |
| 30 | A squat kit of chunky glassware , an orange rug of Iranian provenance and recent manufacture , a Spanish guitar and a pair of maracas , two oil paintings ( the first showing puppies and kittens asnooze , the second a nude , ideally rendered ) , an elephant 's foot , something that looked like a microphone stand but turned out to be a Canadian sculpture , a Bengali chess set , a first edition of Little Women , and various other cultural treasures from all over the world . |