Example sentences of "that [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just some people that eat everything they live till they 're ruddy seventy or it 's makes you wonder ! |
| 2 | That was when she first realized that to lose someone you love is not to feel instant separation . |
| 3 | There was a power in him , a suppressed vigour that made everything he did one hundred per cent positive . |
| 4 | There was something spontaneous and lively in his manner of speaking that made whatever he was saying sound even better . |
| 5 | suggesting common objectives in an even-handed way , ie that favour what they want to achieve at least as much as what you want to achieve . |
| 6 | On the one hand you 've got everything , accounting-wise , you need to run a large company now , and on the other , the bits that make what you send to other people look professional are coming ‘ real soon now ’ in a later release . |
| 7 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 8 | And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | No er the the people that owned it you know . |
| 11 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 12 | Just as we , in our writing , have to find the words that fit what we are trying to express , the most appropriate words , so the characters in a story , novel or poem also have to discover the language that is fitting . |
| 13 | Now that disappointed me I know , because I knew from where I stood , that the stuff was practically worthless . |
| 14 | See it 's not the blues that bother me I do n't think it 's just the fact that there 's there might be trouble afterwards . |
| 15 | It 's the atmosphere that causes it you know . |
| 16 | One short discussion with Peter Eade convinced him that want it he did . |
| 17 | There are certain things in there that say what we can and ca n't do , and certain things that say what the band can and ca n't do , ’ says Marshall . |
| 18 | He said and that cost me he looked round , twenty two pound . |
| 19 | Unlike her workshop counterparts , the nomadic weaver shares the same ancestral heritage as her designs , and is consequently a part of the traditions that pervade everything she weaves . |
| 20 | It is easy enough to set up an objective which really consists of two contradictory objectives : that is to say that to reach one you have to move away from the other ( for example , lowering prices on premium goods , designing a family sports car , designing tyres that do not wear out ) . |
| 21 | One of the best ways to keep pro-active is to feed regularly the client with new information — even rumour and gossip — that show him you are thinking about his company and its commercial interests . |
| 22 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 23 | The skilled negotiator is far more likely to say things that reveal what he or she is thinking , intending and feeling than the less skilled , who reckon that to expose such things is naïve . |
| 24 | No the only thing that consumed me I was looking to see if there was anyway that material from the seat could be used to sort of target us for a mailing system or something like that |
| 25 | We must have a system that uses what we spend more effectively . |
| 26 | It was the part of him that told him he was managing fine and not to change as it would just lead to hassles and worries . |
| 27 | He ran up the street and through the town as far as the main road , where he saw a sign that told him it was just seventy miles from there to London . |
| 28 | In Darlington , Robert visited an agency that told him it was unable to help him find accommodation in Newton Aycliffe . |
| 29 | Beneath the fabric of his borrowed shirt , her fingers trapped and twisted his skin in a burning pinch that told him she intended to deal with him later . |
| 30 | They knew without being told that this was the chief telegraphist , whose word was law on starboard watch ; knew it without seeing the three brass buttons on either sleeve cuff which pronounced his rank or the lightning-flashed wings on his right arm that told them he was the telegraphist they sought . |