Example sentences of "that [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's that cross-eyed gypsy woman doin' here ? ’ |
| 2 | That made money in a way as important as guns — if they could find enough . |
| 3 | That made work for us . |
| 4 | That made sense , I thought ; and I was n't sure which I would choose , to go or to stay , if Dee-Dee was right . |
| 5 | That made sense . |
| 6 | That made sense . |
| 7 | That made sense , and fitted in with what she remembered from college business lectures . |
| 8 | That made sense . |
| 9 | He had learned to his cost , when the ‘ Empire ’ had staged nude reviews in a desperate attempt to keep going , that using sex quite frankly as the basic attraction meant losing the reliable , come-every-week family audience to gain the dubious favours of a fickle , rowdy mob of hooligans . |
| 10 | Other times we burn it either on the coal fire or garden bonfire and that produces ash and gases . |
| 11 | The words used will be interpreted according to the so-called " golden rule " : they will be given their ordinary grammatical and literal meaning unless that produces absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy , when the literal meaning can be modified so as to avoid that absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy . |
| 12 | But a car battery it stores up the energy so , okay , that produces energy , the fuel , erm what other types of energy have we got now ? |
| 13 | And I think it 's that hidden assumption that a lot of people find offensive . |
| 14 | It has been very poor weather this week and that influences traffic and pedestrians . ’ |
| 15 | That involves building one whole new carriageway at the side of the existing motorway . |
| 16 | ‘ That drugs story you asked me to investigate , Ken , has turned out amazingly . ’ |
| 17 | Is it not a telling comment on our times that to preach peace is to invite violence upon your person ? |
| 18 | Gide had tried to persuade his mother , as he had persuaded himself , that bringing Athman to Paris was a ‘ moral rescue ’ , a question of the salvation of a boy through adoption . |
| 19 | He decided eventually that to embrace Buddhism would be to plunge into a world too culturally alien . |
| 20 | Okay , how does that affect trade ? |
| 21 | He makes that sucking noise through his teeth . |
| 22 | He makes that sucking noise with his teeth again . |
| 23 | From the pronounced rocky prow above the clough you can look across to the impressive , deeply-cut Holme Clough , that drains water from Black Hill into a chain of reservoirs . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough 1 Watford 2 MIDDLESBROUGH lost ground in the Second Division promotion race with a performance against that lacked passion and commitment . |
| 25 | That turns darkness into light |
| 26 | Paradoxically it is the pressure created by the enormous guilt , and by the doomed attempt to deal with it , that builds tension to the point where it is more likely to explode into real physical abuse . |
| 27 | That stroking thumb was sending shafts of heat straight up her arm with every heartbeat . |
| 28 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 29 | Does he agree that to stimulate demand within the United Kingdom home market , where problems exist on the retail side , the industry is entitled to expect some special attention from the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the next Budget , which could include a reduction in or the total elimination of the appalling 10 per cent . |
| 30 | There 's that drinks thing where you sit all round on the high stalls you know |