Example sentences of "the [noun] that [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " 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 | But it was the driver that made him halt abruptly . |
| 4 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 5 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
| 6 | IT 'S the rematch of the decade — the Buffalo Bills against the side that made them look like schoolboys in Superbowl XXVII , the Dallas Cowboys . |
| 7 | The eyes that see ourselves see always the same creature throughout life ; in our own mind the child and the youth and the mature man are the same . |
| 8 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 10 | It is caused by a loss of calcium in the bones that makes them become softer , porous and weaker . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's the sun that makes you warm . ’ |
| 13 | It was the Lucy Ghosts who supplied him with the cash that helped him build his empire . ’ |
| 14 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 15 | Once again it boils down to confidence , and the small test I recommend on page 14 for finding out the colours that make you feel secure , can apply just as well to style . |
| 16 | This provokes awareness of and gives practice in those features of language which provide links within sentences or across sentence boundaries : the glue that makes them stick together . |
| 17 | She frowned ; there was something about the people in the water that made her look more closely . |
| 18 | It simply refers to all the things the retailer does to look after the customers — the things that make them enjoy visiting that shop or store . |
| 19 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 20 | Against eight opponents — two of them , Akiko and Carson Bay , are his pacemakers — Arazi should have little trouble in confirming his booking to Louisville if reproducing the brilliance that saw him top the International Classification and America 's Experimental Handicap . |
| 21 | What was it about the name that made them want to funk on down and start praising the Lord ? |
| 22 | That set me wondering , but it was reading the diary that made me know . ’ |
| 23 | It was the click of rock beyond the firelight that made him turn . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 25 | If you can identify some of them , you may find you can arrange things so that you avoid some of the situations that make you feel Not-OK and increase your exposure to situations where you experience OKness . |
| 26 | It reminded her again of the woman who had drifted from window to window waiting for Luke — her unadorned face , the limp that made one shoulder dip as she hurried to meet him . |
| 27 | Well that 's probably the vodka that makes you feel sick , if you drunk other things you might feel a bit better . |
| 28 | Clare Short , Labour MP for Ladywood , who raised the issue in the Commons in January , said : ‘ I think the West Midlands Police were trying to brush the matter under the carpet and it was only pressure from MPs and the media that made them do anything . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Are there any rules for writing poetry in the sense that does it have to rhyme , does it have to have a rhythm , does it have to have a particular for to be recognised and accepted as a piece of poetry as opposed , perhaps , to a piece of prose ? |