Example sentences of "that [verb] someone " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when she first realized that to lose someone you love is not to feel instant separation . |
| 2 | The COB Rules do not define the relevant transactions that make someone a customer . |
| 3 | I learned that using someone sexually leaves you feeling oddly empty and bad about yourself . |
| 4 | Traditionally , the law has said that allowing someone who is terminally ill to die is lawful , but bringing about his or her death is unlawful , even if he or she consents or requests it . |
| 5 | For instance , the reason that to pull someone 's left leg and to kick the large bucket have no normal idiomatic interpretation is that leg and bucket carry no meaning in the idiom , so there is nothing for left and large to carry out their normal modifying functions on ( in general , a modifier needs a semantic constituent to modify ) . |
| 6 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 7 | In Mahal [ 1991 ] Crim LR 632 ( CA ) , it was held that a jury could find that pushing someone through an open window 22 feet from the ground could lead to " the risk of some harm " . |
| 8 | We must remember that to deny someone control of their own lives is to offer them a most profound insult , not to mention the injury which the frustration of their wishes and the setting at naught of their own plans for themselves will add . |
| 9 | The first point to note is that sending someone a contract of employment does not involve any re-formatting of text . |
| 10 | She studied the use of directives — speech that gets someone to do something — among working-class Afro-American children in Philadelphia . |
| 11 | Research has shown that having someone to talk to and confide in is an important factor in preventing depression . |
| 12 | Well , I consider that letting someone know why they 've lost is natural justice . |
| 13 | The jury chose to ignore Mr Justice Drake 's advice that to call someone a queer ‘ may not be defamatory ’ and that the matter was ‘ very debatable ’ . |
| 14 | Beccaria uses just such an argument against capital punishment ( in addition to his rational , effectiveness arguments ) ; we simply would not enter into a social contract that gave someone the right to kill us . |
| 15 | triggers , or cues that precede someone 's behaviour |
| 16 | Lazaris suggests that hurting someone — consciously causing distress — is always manipulative ; it is always dishonest . |
| 17 | Their legal rights were not affected by admission to a home and the guidelines warn that restraining someone without their consent , or on the instructions of a third party , is unlawful and unacceptable . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the character that pushes someone on to that level , ’ advises Mr Austin . |
| 19 | She looked at the ‘ Ego defence mechanisms ’ , that protect someone if their Id or Super-ego ask too much , and the way children will create imaginary friends to defend their Ego . |
| 20 | Certainly there are daily actions that help someone to stay in recovery just as the daily wearing of spectacles or contact lenses helps to overcome the effects of short sight . |
| 21 | ‘ It is the process of being recruited , co-opted and accepted by the apparatus that makes someone a bureaucrat ’ . |
| 22 | No you do n't have to , there 's no , there 's no rea there 's no , there 's no thing that makes someone but it , it if you 're pissed off it does n't , you do n't have to have a special reason to be pissed off you can just be pissed off like you can just be annoyed , it 's like saying you 're annoyed when someone nicks your towels . |