Example sentences of "something that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no I mean as I say some of the content was was was very interesting and er the concept is er well it 's something that excites me . |
| 2 | Tell me something that cheered you recently , Mr Bodenland . |
| 3 | It is often impossible to say what moves you in a poem ; somehow in this poem there is something that touches my heart and links me in sympathy to this Bolivian poet whom I shall never meet . |
| 4 | I always name the team equal after a number of rounds and finish with something that involves everyone . |
| 5 | Well you 've just you 've just er allow you 've just said something that allows me er to bring in er the way in which we approach advertising sales er Robert because er all of us who 've been in tra traditional sales , and I 'm I 'm just er that was my background as well er in addition to recruitment , er we are not used to giving everything over the phone before we go to see the people . |
| 6 | " He said something that upset you . " |
| 7 | As once you have dealt with history , you have to put in place something that keeps it up to date , without too much labour and without erm , a major hole there where things fall into the middle cover and come out . |
| 8 | He particularly delights in riding near the front of the field so that he can watch the hounds at work — something that fascinates him . |
| 9 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 10 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 11 | What he seemed to see was something else , something that wore her like a shell , and it was walking towards him . |
| 12 | He had felt that he was in the presence of something that wished him harm ; some malign , unseen enemy who wanted to scare him into leaving . |
| 13 | Together they cleared the table , and as they moved about the kitchen Lucy thought of her aunt , and in doing so she remembered something that caused her to turn to Silas . |
| 14 | Ca n't you see that if you were to say or do something that caused my father , for example , to die when he was still a little boy , then I should never get round to being born , should I ? ’ |
| 15 | It seemed that , every time she resolved not to let her wayward emotions get the better of her , he said something that had her responding to him like a fourteen-year-old star-struck teenager all over again . |
| 16 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 17 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 18 | He was bewitched , she could see that ; changed into something else , as Fand and the other Women had been — something that had nothing to do with his real self . |
| 19 | ‘ Charity begins at home , ’ Ruth suggested wryly at the same time uncharitably thinking that Maria Luisa must have put Fernando under such a terrible strain over something that had nothing to do with him . |
| 20 | His body was washed in silver by the moonlight and when he removed his shirt she felt a tiny shiver of something that had nothing to do with the pervasive cold of the night air on her chilled skin . |
| 21 | I wonder if , it Mr , was it choir or his father or something that had it , I can if I can remember somebody saying . |
| 22 | You landed on something that pierced your leg . ’ |
| 23 | And with unnerving certainty she knew that something was in the corridor with her — something that blended its colour and shape so perfectly that it was invisible . |
| 24 | ‘ So we have a connection closer to home : Doyle saw something that threatened them . |
| 25 | And then he said something that struck me as rather strange : ‘ He 's made up his mind now . |
| 26 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 27 | They might look at you the wrong way , say something that annoys you . |
| 28 | So in order to have something that enables you to keep records of two or three hundred customers , and then of course to be able to print out some sort of lists or invoices at the end of it , you would need to pay , probably even now , a couple of thousand pounds , and very often of course more . |
| 29 | He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood . |
| 30 | She was about to turn and go back when she saw something that made her stop and purse her lips disapprovingly . |