Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That represents its ploughing yoke , ’ she told Chola . |
| 2 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 3 | You know you could put in up to seventeen and a half percent , that represents you know |
| 4 | Say no more than that and that wins you a prize . |
| 5 | 17 ) Party Sevens ( these were massive cans of bitter — it Whitbread Big Head Trophy Bitter , The Pint That Thinks It 's A Quawawwart ! — that you had to open with a hammer ) |
| 6 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 7 | That produces something that then moves on to discussions |
| 8 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 9 | I remember that miracle , so easy to forget , that separates my life from the fates of the suburban furies . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether that encourages you or discourages my friends , but I mean , up there . |
| 11 | that influences our opinions on it , you know . |
| 12 | For one motive that drives men to commit a real crime there are a thousand that drives them to commit those indifferent acts which are called crimes by bad laws ; and if the probability of crimes is proportionate to the number of motives , to enlarge the sphere of crimes is to increase the probability of their being committed ( p. 94 ) . |
| 13 | Yeah but that drives me mad . |
| 14 | that drives you made , if you 've got an itch yourself |
| 15 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 16 | That fascinates me ! |
| 17 | This is scorched-earth commentary , razing to the ground everything that might provide some cover for his quarry , stripping the plays of all that renders them humanly habitable . |
| 18 | That shuts me up . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , that irritates me but , I mean it 's gon na it 's gon na make them think again in n it ? |
| 20 | ’ Becke 's revision reads : ‘ He dwelleth wyth his wyfe accordinge to knowledge , that taketh her as a necessarye healper , and not as a bonde servaunte or a bonde slave . |
| 21 | I think er it wo n't be long before that goes I think . |
| 22 | That turns me on that does . |
| 23 | You can still do almost everything else that turns you on , safely … |
| 24 | And that turns your dynamo generator whatever you want , |
| 25 | No , something always comes along and puts a flaming great big spanner in the works and that upsets everybody . |
| 26 | There is a touch of pathos in the scene when the clerk leaves Malyne : but it is Alayn 's going , not his coming , that upsets her . |
| 27 | because that upsets me and all . |
| 28 | That upsets me . |
| 29 | That upsets me ! |
| 30 | I mean if that upsets it then we 'll |