Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I 'm going to concentrate on my music and give my career more focus being with a company that understands what I 'm doing . |
| 3 | Put simply , if you wish to make a reactive intermediate , incorporate it into a molecule that contains something which is stable on its own . |
| 4 | It 's the atmosphere that causes it you know . |
| 5 | It 's the same sort of factor that allows anybody who smokes a lot to not get cancer and not get bronchitis and live , also live a long time . |
| 6 | We must have a system that uses what we spend more effectively . |
| 7 | I also could point out , again , the shameful irony that the most dramatic advances for women have been almost entirely confined to the industrial world ; that the worst declines have been in poor countries among those very women whose work creates the wealth that buys us our freedom . |
| 8 | Yeah well that shows what she 's . |
| 9 | And Ma'am that shows you I think er the chairman has it open in front of you . |
| 10 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 11 | Later on there was an incident that shows us his declining ambitions . |
| 12 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 13 | What we 've got here is a very conventional piece of logic that implements what I 've talked about . |
| 14 | They pounce on the man that appears whoever he is . |
| 15 | Somehow , I 'm sure that wild animals have a sixth sense that tells them they 're safe , even in the presence of their arch-enemy , man . |
| 16 | They can feed the hard , round ball which is the head , the softer round rump , and the firm back that tells them which direction the baby if facing . |
| 17 | Always hang on to something that tells them who they are — and tells me , too , in this case . |
| 18 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 19 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | Or we look at how strongly animals avoid things , and again that tells us something about how unpleasant the thing is to the animal . |
| 21 | Pictures that tells us our Royals ca n't bear to be together … |
| 22 | Let me see — yeah , yeah ’ — plastic keys riffling — ‘ we 've got a list that tells us who 's bought fridge freezers in the central London area in the past year … |
| 23 | You will see a face that tells you something : there is a story in that face . |
| 24 | ‘ The thing inside you that tells you what you are , ’ said the Thing . |
| 25 | A ‘ voice over ’ is the ‘ commentator ’ or other disembodied voice that tells you what is going on — or , usually , to go out and buy the product being advertised . |
| 26 | Have you got a book that tells you what to do ? |
| 27 | Do not allow yourself to be pushed around by an agency that tells you they have a large number of suitable vacancies and then persists in sending you for jobs which are not within your specifications . |
| 28 | Okay if I can just erm give you my business card that tells you who I am |
| 29 | You can hide in your shell whenever you get that feeling inside you that tells you you are angry . |
| 30 | ‘ The hardest part of being a fat person is that it 's not just your imagination that tells you you do n't count . |