Example sentences of "something that [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | " He said something that upset you . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He particularly delights in riding near the front of the field so that he can watch the hounds at work — something that fascinates him . |
| 7 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What he seemed to see was something else , something that wore her like a shell , and it was walking towards him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I wonder if , it Mr , was it choir or his father or something that had it , I can if I can remember somebody saying . |
| 13 | ‘ So we have a connection closer to home : Doyle saw something that threatened them . |
| 14 | And then he said something that struck me as rather strange : ‘ He 's made up his mind now . |
| 15 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 16 | They might look at you the wrong way , say something that annoys you . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then Lorne said something that made me half-identify Rimbo as French . |
| 19 | Suddenly he remembered something that made him jump . |
| 20 | Something that made him different ? |
| 21 | But it was something about her , something that made it work between them . |
| 22 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 23 | Always hang on to something that tells them who they are — and tells me , too , in this case . |
| 24 | There is so much to see and do ; everyone will find something that suits them . |
| 25 | Looking at other people 's letters was not something that attracted him . |
| 26 | So I signed , and then she said something that rocked me back on my heels . |
| 27 | Theists describe a constant dependence of the world not upon something outside it — if we define the universe broadly enough nothing can be outside it — but upon something that transcends it . |
| 28 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that it is the three strands that will form the basis of any future talks , and that against that background there will always be the Anglo-Irish Agreement , until the two Governments feel that they have something that transcends it ? |
| 29 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 30 | The thought had barely come and gone , and I was in the act of reaching out to replace the whisky bottle , when a long burst of electric-blue light from the aperture showed me something that froze me in mid-reach . |