Example sentences of "that [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's that cross-eyed gypsy woman doin' here ? ’ |
| 2 | The Scottish people would then realise that it is the Labour party , not the Conservative party , that represents Scotland . |
| 3 | That represents £7 million , which is made up of £1 million for inflation and £26 million for the garden festival , leaving only £3 million for all the valleys of south Wales . |
| 4 | That represents £5,960 per horse ( compared with Pipe 's £3,925 ) . |
| 5 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 6 | That made Defries think of Johannsen . |
| 7 | That made money in a way as important as guns — if they could find enough . |
| 8 | That made McIllvanney a gold-plated pimp , though he preferred to describe himself as a ‘ leisure-agent ’ ; however , he usually had the grace to smile when he used that label . |
| 9 | That made work for us . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That made sense . |
| 12 | That made sense . |
| 13 | That made sense , and fitted in with what she remembered from college business lectures . |
| 14 | That made sense . |
| 15 | That made Agnes even madder , because she knew her friendly snub-nosed face could n't cope with anger . |
| 16 | That made Jay nervous again but Peter assured him they would manage , it was dead easy , a breeze . |
| 17 | That made Watson 's attacks cowardly as well as brutal . |
| 18 | That made Shiona feel better . |
| 19 | In his tribute at the funeral in Wellington on Thursday , the Right Rev Hapai Winiata , Assistant Bishop of Wellington , described how that made Keith Elliott a man who worked with people . |
| 20 | That made people feel that their least effort was rewarded and they looked forward to participating in the next organizational improvement . |
| 21 | It was n't a matter of money — four hundred would n't break him — it was the risk of finding that he 'd been duped and made a fool of that made Carson wary . |
| 22 | That made Kezia a ‘ Lower Breed ’ on two counts . |
| 23 | That fits Waugh 's 1930s fiction well enough , and in an age that had been reading Proust , Joyce and Virginia Woolf it must all have looked startlingly diagrammatic and technically reactionary : a reactionary politics aptly matched by a technical reaction . |
| 24 | That discourages people from working . |
| 25 | Right does that cover billboards ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Other times we burn it either on the coal fire or garden bonfire and that produces ash and gases . |
| 28 | Inevitably that produces omissions , and may lead the interpreter to stop altogether or to ask the speaker to slow down . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I play hard and to win and that produces frustrations — and dealing with those frustrations is what I need help with . ’ |