Example sentences of "that [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave them a cup of Ruski čaj [ Russian tea ] , and that made them very , very happy , ’ |
| 2 | If people lived mean , dirty , anti-social lives it was their mean environments , made by dirty , anti-social government policies , that made them so . |
| 3 | I think we were lucky to get away with it , and lucky to get a Director like Waris Hussein who managed to create this very strange quality in the cavemen that made them so interesting . ’ |
| 4 | Through his haze , Charles realised that it was n't just the crisis that made them so deferential ; it was the part he was now playing , too . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 7 | The problems are formidable and they interlock in ways that make them more difficult to tackle . |
| 8 | As we shall see in more detail in the next chapter , there are many features of such conditions that make them quite obviously inimical to the creative act . |
| 9 | Oh I see so it was you that got them together oh |
| 10 | Soon the marching changed to slithering as the patrol hit a scree that propelled them forward as if they were on ball-bearings and they came tumbling headlong to the bottom . |
| 11 | The parents will begin to identify what it is that irritates them so much . |
| 12 | Interpretations of the source of this imbalance have varied , but most persuasive is the theory that it reflects an unusual form of communication between the two halves of the brain , involving the anatomical structure ( the corpus callosum ) that joins them together . |
| 13 | How do you enter a formula that joins them together ? |
| 14 | Look for all these types of web and try to catch the spiders that build them so that you can watch the stages of web-building . |
| 15 | These individuals are then subjected to differential survival through the operation of a range of mortality factors that eliminate them either before or after reproduction . |
| 16 | It was his parents rather than John that helped them financially . |
| 17 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 18 | They suffered the kind of cruel teasing that drew them together , regardless of past differences , into closely knit little groups sharing a common stigma . |
| 19 | All the big firms have strong international links that cushion them somewhat from domestic troubles . |
| 20 | She had bright blue eyes that surveyed them warily . |
| 21 | The W and Z particles figure prominently in attempts to develop a single unified theory of the particles that form the matter of the Universe and the forces that mould them together . |
| 22 | By that they mean that multiplying them together in either order would have to give the same result . |
| 23 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 24 | This argues against many of the palaeo. magnetic reconstructions that put them far apart . |
| 25 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 26 | They want ties that link them more to each other — through mutual defence pacts — and to the West , if it can be done without infuriating the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Females also demonstrate a type of hierarchy that sees them side-by-side , waggling their bodies to form water currents as a show of strength . |
| 28 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
| 29 | The groups of organisms described have certain special peculiarities that set them apart from all others , and once these features are recognized the group to which the fossil belongs can be confidently identified . |
| 30 | As well as the academic and professional qualifications , accountants who aspire to the de rigueur red braces must also have personal characteristics that set them apart . |