Example sentences of "that it [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 2 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 3 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 4 | Simply formulating a title of some sort can be a useful achievement , in that it helps you decide how you want to focus your writing . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 6 | Its unique lightweight design is incredibly simple — so simple that it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before ! |