Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little creatures have an endless appetite , and a digestive system that turns almost anything into perfect compost . |
| 2 | They 're talking about up the Dales if you , if you , if you think of the marvellous place that goes around he 's got |
| 3 | For instance , if we want a trajectory that goes then we start in region 1 ; to get to region 3 we must be in the right-hand " third " of region 1 ; if we are going to go on from region 3 to region 4 , we must be in the right-hand " third " of that " third " ; and , to go on to region 2 , in the left " third " of that " third " , etc . |
| 4 | It is the er sort of er five hundred pounds that goes out your bank account on direct debits , it 's all the other incidentals during the year , and even er you know gifts for children , pets in the case of some people , if you 've got er large dogs or whatever , then you know there 's vet 's bills , food , etcetera , that you know , is probably incidental at the moment , but not when you retire . |
| 5 | It 's not the only thing that goes hard you know ! |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder , sometimes , what it is about that woman that haunts both you and me ? ’ |
| 7 | His jokeless act consists of long , arcanely-enunciated , pause-dotted ruminations on his mom 's new boyfriend ( ‘ … some guy that sits around my mom 's pool and sponges off her . |
| 8 | My own solution is to wear a one-piece smock that fits over my head . |
| 9 | You will probably need to carry your passport and some money , so invest in a money belt that fits round your waist and has zipped compartments . |
| 10 | If you ca n't , if you ca n't find a fraction that fits then we just say it 's irrational , so can you think of a , any examples ? |
| 11 | So anxiety would be , you see , would be something that points out what I 'm calling this realistic view of human nature . |
| 12 | Chronicle of Aviation ( JL International Publishing , 984pp , illus , hbk , £29.95 ) edited by Bill Gunston , is one of those coffee table sized encyclopaedia books that contains almost anything and everything about aviation ! |
| 13 | the choir that lives near you , or sca , can travel with you ? |
| 14 | Well , one gran that lives alone we get five pound an for each birthday , we normally get five pound for a birthday and then she buys us a present for Christmas or a gift voucher . |
| 15 | Mm yes , erm since the home office secretary 's initiative it 's progressing quite well , with interest from certainly Bassett , Newark Stanton on the Wolds Tollerton and some other of the rural Coldfield areas were interested in going forward , Bassett looked very very interested , we went to a meeting last night , eighteen parish councils were represented , er Beckingham is going to be the first one , they 've got a special that lives there who 's gon na take up the work , Superintendent came down last night to do a circular of em a questionnaire around the village and parish to get find out what people want , and then go and see what the specials able to provide and meet the two together and get some sort of contractive agreement , he 'll work from the police house there , he 'll have access to the car , when it 's not being used by the rural officer , also his radio . |
| 16 | Well that 's effectively brocked that has n't it . |
| 17 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 18 | I just do n't want to be judged — or prejudged — by a title that shouts out my marital status or availability . |
| 19 | Icelandic weather is really buggering me about , I decide , and conditions are now near perfect except for the metre of soft snow that lies over everything in sight . |
| 20 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 21 | Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ? |
| 22 | Injury and suspension could now give Walter Smith 's team a vulnerability on two fronts that tests even their noticeable capacity for ignoring logic and achieving results that fly in the face of realism . |
| 23 | So if you could precis or select from the text that you 've already prepared for the annual report , something that will go in there that says why your functions are |
| 24 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I know quite well what the old goat thought I was , ’ Kate interrupted , ‘ and if anything that bears out my case ! ’ |
| 26 | In the district that embraces both my constituency and Stockport , there were 20,000 skilled engineers , many of whom were made unemployed . |
| 27 | It must be described not with the fierce barely pronounceable scientific tags so far used but with a simple name that describes both its function and general make-up with sufficient clarity to distinguish it from anything else . |
| 28 | Though the turning of oval objects is routinely employed now , it is remarkably difficult to find a textbook that describes how it is done , or a mechanical engineering department that can teach it . |
| 29 | However , it is the third and final stage of the argument that reveals fully its strategic aims . |
| 30 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |