Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.

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31 Erm , not necessarily complain but interview police officer about when he was told that upsets my mother
32 The only thing that upsets it is leaving the lid off the tin for long periods during storage when the reaction to calcium caseinate takes place prematurely because moisture gets in .
33 The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground .
34 ‘ The most important thing is to organise a system that encourages them to stick at it day by day and week by week .
35 Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way .
36 We 're articulate enough to fool ourselves that we 're nice people , but there 's a strong undercurrent to our thinking that encourages us to view people with a disability as lesser , and until we come to terms with that , we will never have a proper support system .
37 If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition .
38 And if you 're really interested in finding out all there is to know about us there 's a book on the hall table that records our historic events and heroes , including Francis Ledwidge , our local poet … ’
39 It had begun to rain : the kind of damp , penetrating drizzle that chills you to the bone .
40 Below : Amblestone is a charming Victorian-style conservatory that offers plenty of space and light .
41 It means the League champions have gone 11 games unbeaten , a run that offers them a final placing that would erase much of the disappointment of a frustrating season that includes two defeats by Coventry .
42 A political process that offers them power over their own lives ?
43 Varig is the airline that offers you the most alternatives in departure times and flights between Europe and Brazil — 29 in all
44 Larousse Gastronomique is considered the bible for chefs but now Larousse has produced a new , practical cookbook that offers lots of inspiration and advice for the enthusiastic amateur cook .
45 The popular view of black sportsmen 's rise is more simple : they have a ‘ natural ability ’ that equips them to do well in physical enterprises .
46 However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs :
47 With Satire that supplies our Tongues ,
48 In this way , the new upper floor is prevented from crossing the original three-light arched windows which serve the end bays of the lower storey , and the stair is prevented from conflicting with the central window of this range by the introduction of a further quarter-landing at an intermediate level that turns its lowest flight parallel to the side elevation at a level just below the window-sill ( Fig 49 ) .
49 ‘ Everyone does , if they 're lucky , if there is anything that turns them on .
50 The frescoes , for example , show many elements that are borrowed from Minoan Crete , but handled in a way that turns them into distinctively Theran compositions .
51 There is a poison in potatoes that turns them green , which is very dangerous to pregnant women .
52 Actually I do n't wan na to get erm , hitting his head on a with a hammer , I 'll say that turns him on .
53 You do n't need , he , that sort of thing that turns you on or .
54 As Morrissey sings : ‘ I 'm so very sorry … ’ his vocal hits a pitch that turns your stomach with queasy delight .
55 The first trap is a sentimental romanticism that turns our attention away from the present battle and leaves us wallowing in nostalgia for the past .
56 For those who need the ability to carry the phone with them wherever they go , it is also available with an optional transmobile kit that turns it into a transportable cellphone .
57 One might wonder why metaphor so often demands that its work be described in terms of colonization and occupation , and what it is about an initial transportation of meaning that turns it into a conquest or a coercive restructuring .
58 There 's something about watching little birds , even dead ones , being torn to shreds by a powerful beak that turns my stomach .
59 No that 's Dorothy , is n't it , the one that goes we were strolling along on moonlight bay , so you could hear the clouds singing you stole my heart moonlight bay .
60 There are people in the Civil Service who can talk in a way that fascinates her . ’
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