Example sentences of "the [noun] that [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 2 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's one of the blokes that stops me viring ? ’ |
| 4 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 6 | The fear that overtakes me seems to increase as we get closer to the big day . |
| 7 | It was the cold that forced me to move . |
| 8 | Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent . |
| 9 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 10 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 11 | Over the weeks that followed I noticed more of them . |
| 12 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 13 | On the pages that follow I have tried to present the most convincing and widely accepted explanations of all the various animal phenomena that are described there , but while reading them it is always healthy to keep an open mind . |
| 14 | That set me wondering , but it was reading the diary that made me know . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 16 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 17 | Says Reagan : ‘ The speaker that followed me spoke in Spanish and he was being applauded about every paragraph . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes it really gets me down , ’ he admits , ‘ but the thing that keeps me goin' is live performances . |
| 19 | no , no , well when I , when I get it , the thing that gets me going is this , that complete car cost me er six thousand , eight hundred |
| 20 | The thing that kept me glued to the TV was the gorgeous Jennifer Capriati with her magnificent looks , great personality and brilliant tennis . |
| 21 | The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue . |
| 22 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 23 | The thing that makes me believe in God is that there 's a special kind of weather on Sundays . |
| 24 | and that , that , that 's the thing that makes me retch , not the cutting , it 's when they just pull it apart |
| 25 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 26 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |
| 27 | In the silence that followed I waited for him to continue . |
| 28 | It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen . |
| 29 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 30 | I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go . |