Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] [indef pn] " 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 | There was a huge anger welling in Maxim that choked off anything he might have said , a yearning to reach that mugger and snap his arms , which he could do so easily , then kick the helpless manhood out of him … |
| 3 | ‘ The normal sorts of things that make up one 's life . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | He flicked up his eyes , small and blank , holes that sucked in everything around him , but gave nothing back . |
| 6 | The floor — the planet-would be like a hole in space — a hole that sucked in anything and everything that came within range . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She opened the door and gazed down a splendid vista of reception rooms that opened out one into the next , which Buzz had learned was typical of grand French houses . |
| 10 | This disappointing result indicates that control over one 's own dreams is very much more difficult than Garfield and Faraday have suggested . |
| 11 | Best response of the night — not bad going in the face of St Etienne 's new-found libidinous following — and a fitting end to a night that fed off nothing more than the sheer character of the individual bands . |
| 12 | Take , for example , the case of the round teabag , a commercial victory that owed almost everything to research . |
| 13 | That at least was an attitude that owed almost nothing to the Civil Service . |
| 14 | In addition , IDC has come up with some projections that indicate not everybody is buying the hype . |
| 15 | Luke 's eyes stared down into hers , his gaze drawing up a veil of heat in her body until she was suffused by a sensation that blocked out everything but his closeness . |
| 16 | That was the dare that started off everything else . |
| 17 | They were simply buying time , came out with a white paper that meant absolutely nothing and now we see the full effects of it . |
| 18 | Hayes may have been protecting Minton from hurt , but Bratby saw in his action the kind of censorship that accompanied then anything to do with homosexuality . |
| 19 | And she could not sort out her brain while he stood less than a foot away , watching her with eyes that gave away nothing of his own thoughts . |
| 20 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 21 | Comparisons were drawn with the US where , in spite of more severe child-care obstacles , women were making their mark because of the ‘ can-do ’ attitude that marked out anyone destined for the top . |
| 22 | As she let herself out into the garden through the kitchen door , she gave a small shiver that had absolutely nothing to do with the autumnal chill in the air . |
| 23 | ‘ Frank would be having a conversation with someone , ’ said Allen , ‘ and , halfway through , he would talk about something that had absolutely nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 24 | Finding warmth rising inside her that had absolutely nothing to do with the fire , she looked hastily away . |
| 25 | ‘ I was very angry when I saw my name mentioned in connection with an incident that had absolutely nothing to do with me . ’ |
| 26 | It was a past that had almost nothing in common with the learned past which Lanfranc had made abundantly available at Bec , and which pointed the way to the future . |
| 27 | Finnan had a cheeky grin that had nonetheless something guarded about it . |
| 28 | They had that air of sadness that comes over one when a funeral passes by , and I overheard one say : ‘ It 's no longer an army ! |
| 29 | I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project . |