Example sentences of "that [verb] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An irresistible softness with an inner strength that made them million sellers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 6 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 7 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 8 | The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be . |
| 9 | It 's one of the things that made them different . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Subjective meanings , however , for Weber were the very constituent of actions that made them social and , hence , the subject matter of sociology . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 16 | The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er |
| 17 | As for the next ten years of Brookside , Eithne and the elusive Chrissie Rogers offer their best regards to the series that made them both household names . |
| 18 | There is a poison in potatoes that turns them green , which is very dangerous to pregnant women . |
| 19 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 20 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
| 21 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
| 22 | Bantamweight Karen Briggs , featherweight Sharon Rendle and light-middleweight Diane Bell all won on Saturday with performances that make them odds-on favourites for medals in Barcelona . |
| 23 | Vadinamia has spent lavishly on all kinds of state-of-the-art technology There are no longer any bribable Vadinamian in direct contact with the stored valuables — just servo-mechanisms , including mandroid guards and Intelloid overseers with multiphase fail-safe level of programme reinforcement that make them incorruptible . |
| 24 | Chronically dry soils lack organic buffers and are often strongly sodic , saline , acid or alkaline , with free soluble salts that make them unattractive for plant colonization . |
| 25 | For example , in some multilingual classrooms pupils carry out activities that make them aware of some of the similarities and differences among their languages ; in other classrooms pupils write play-scripts in regional dialect or study the language of Chaucer . |
| 26 | Women seek to prove that they can perform equally with men , without , however , any allowances for those things that make them different , both physiologically and socially . |
| 27 | In urban areas this means protecting the elements that make them attractive , whilst seeking to improve those areas that would benefit from regeneration . |
| 28 | He was demanding , but so was she , both of them raging out of control , riding the wild storm that flung them helpless before it , clinging to each other as the only certain thing in a world gone mad . |
| 29 | With the proceeds of the gold they buy provisions , heading toward numerous pharmacies for drugs to combat diseases , notably malaria , that afflict them all . |
| 30 | As we have just seen , sometimes horses can not cope with a situation that causes them great anxiety , and an attack of colic is the result . |