Example sentences of "[det] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was this that kept me going . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was this that kept him alive . |
| 3 | It 's records like this that make me pissed off with political thrashcore . |
| 4 | It was this that made me unable to sleep , so that coming downstairs , parched with alcohol , for a glass of lemonade , I heard my mother and Lili talking . |
| 5 | I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me . |
| 6 | It was this that made it possible for the whole of the cuckoo 's breeding cycle to be filmed , resulting in an early classic of wildlife photography , The Cuckoo 's Secret . |
| 7 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 8 | I get a tremendous kick from the creative aspect of life , and I think it is this that keeps me so well and full of vitality . ’ |
| 9 | It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane . |
| 10 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 11 | It was around Easter , and perhaps it was this that led him to wax theological as we bounced across the heather and gorse . |
| 12 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 13 | It is precisely this that makes me very suspicious of searching for some supposed rational parliamentary intention outside the language in which a draftsman who is known to be rational has chosen to express it . |
| 14 | But mothers are wonderful , and it 's something like this that makes you realize it . ’ |
| 15 | It is this that makes us more advanced . |
| 16 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 17 | What Barry says is simply this that suppose we accept the point that authority structures are now necessary , that we could n't have anarchy we have to have |
| 18 | What is the thing about this that concerns you most of all ? |
| 19 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 20 | Community participation in conservation can occur under a variety of different circumstances , but one can identify some that make it easier . |
| 21 | Er erm I think , I mean they all eat most of them eat the ham , there were a few that sent it back I think it was probably a bit much for them . |
| 22 | There 's one muscle that pulls your arm that way and another that pulls it back again . |
| 23 | I I think , I 've a funny feeling that did adopt it but quite how much that means I do n't understand . |
| 24 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 25 | It 's jobs like these that earn me my pocket money — forty pence weekly which goes straight in my savings account . |
| 26 | Maybe it is these that enable them to feel within their bodies the contours of the earth 's magnetic forces . |
| 27 | But these that do it they must be bloody experienced at it they could do it so quick as they was doing it . |
| 28 | All that amazed her was that he had not expected that . |
| 29 | I told him all that left me cold . |
| 30 | All that stuff you were telling me yesterday . |