Example sentences of "that [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was the fact that you needed to be told that made telling you impossible . ’
2 ‘ I want the bastard named , then I want to be part of a team that goes hunting him . ’
3 Russell pretty good figures , this is er fifteenth over , two for seventeen , eight maidens , giving the one wicket that goes field him for thirty-four and he comes up again , that little hop and bowls to DaSilva goes down the pitch , tips this one up to mid-on , but er wo n't get one as figure Lawrence is there to stop it , so no run , to play to sixteen overs , seven twenty eight .
4 I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning
5 The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma .
6 It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) .
7 The presence of teenager Kevin Thomas in the Hearts ' squad may be designed to supply the goals that tend to elude them at Broomfield .
8 They accept the forces that tend to bring them into equilibrium with their surroundings .
9 It was fourteen days since the force had crossed the Tweed , eluded the levies that rode to intercept it , and roved south towards Newcastle , pillaging and burning what was left of the standing crops .
10 STEVE OJOMOH flies to Lanzarote with the England squad this week sensing he is fated to play for the country that tried to deport him .
11 The manufacturers of BSB 's MAC receivers , the traders that tried to sell them , and the public who were encouraged to buy them , have lost confidence in the whole business of MAC , Marcopolo and 31° West .
12 Two days — she would give herself that long to see him again .
13 If you are sincerely dieting in a way that has led you to lose weight in the past , just stick with the same regime for a further week or two .
14 IT 'S a question that has intrigued us , and doubtless thousands of others , for years .
15 After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support .
16 And the midfielder is also bidding to continue a scoring streak that has seen him hit the target in his last four League matches .
17 ‘ He that has seen me ’ , Jesus said to Philip , ‘ has seen the father . ’
18 British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants .
19 The Lanarkshire side are on a tidy run that has seen them lose only one of their last ten matches and they now have a strong squad to choose from after the massive injury problems of earlier in the season .
20 It is huge and successful , but over the past decade it has undergone a radical change that has seen it transformed from a seemingly crusty , actuary-dominated organisation to one that is prominently business led , competitive and very high profile .
21 Which brings us to the most important constituent of the whole NME recipe that has seen us , scarred but hopefully unbowed , through 40 years — the readers .
22 Such a move would cause her pain , would shorten her days , would deny the stout heart that has kept her here all these weeks .
23 He 's the only thing that has kept me going .
24 Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party .
25 The yanks are castigated for their heartless reaction to the deaths of civilians in Baghdad ( ‘ the manner of the American military 's response betrays something about its values , ’ opined Britain 's Independent on Sunday ) and mocked for the fear of terrorism that has kept them away from Europe — thus cruelly hurting Europe 's tourist business .
26 ‘ Mind you , ’ Sutcliffe added , ‘ I do n't think it 's just lack of funds that has kept him at home lately .
27 Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months .
28 He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches .
29 I believe it to be Treasure Hunting magazine that has kept us all together and interested in the hobby , for all these years .
30 Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ .
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