Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the image that offers to convey something about somebody also strives to protect itself and its subject from that process of narrative unfolding by which portraiture always seems to be accompanied . |
| 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 | And God help the little sparrow that dares to close its eyes or shuffle its tiny feet during a performance . |
| 5 | It contained a poem by James Kirkup entitled ‘ The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name ’ . |
| 6 | The team that wins gets their presents . |
| 7 | Not the bottle that guarantees to turn your grey hair black or make your bald pate sprout again , but something else . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I really feel a foreigner and walk up the drive cursing the mud that has ruined my gold stilettos . |
| 10 | IT 'S a question that has intrigued us , and doubtless thousands of others , for years . |
| 11 | Maybe , then , it is The Smiths ' natural unease before cameras that has motivated their hatred of video . |
| 12 | This backward projection is one of the things that has motivated my own work on present-day speech communities , and my interest in how the authority of the legitimized variety is promoted in linguistic scholarship J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And the midfielder is also bidding to continue a scoring streak that has seen him hit the target in his last four League matches . |
| 15 | ‘ He that has seen me ’ , Jesus said to Philip , ‘ has seen the father . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For a city that has seen plenty of violence , Colombo was curiously calm after Mr Premadasa 's death . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In doing so they offer , it seems , their most conclusive definition of the word that has inspired their fiction : |
| 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 ’ . |