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

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1 He is still himself — still rather short and tubby , with a high forehead , and dry hair that turns upwards and back in the wind of his passage .
2 What d' ya call something that goes round and round a planet ?
3 They contain endlessly frustrated plantation slaves who are rebellious at assessments and in encounters with professionals , but whose views only reach daylight in fragmented and unvalidated form ; and they contain house slaves who agree with everything that goes on and use ‘ massa 's ’ language and concepts , but who believe something else all the time and are waiting for the day .
4 But the Samaritans — who provide a 24 hour service — do know the pain that goes on and they are trying to help .
5 What we are concerned about though is the amount of injecting that goes on and obviously the sharing of needles and syringes because of the risks of H I V , the AIDS virus , and of course other health risks like hepatitis and abscesses er septicaemia , whatever .
6 you 've only got to see any tax that goes up and everyone 's up in arms about it .
7 Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done .
8 But normally should have a wee bit that goes in and hole .
9 So that bit that goes there and that bit goes rou , put that back in again that 's right
10 He was one of these comparative anthropologists , he was n't the kind of anthropologist that goes out and lives with er , primitive people for several years , and then comes back and writes an account of them .
11 with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ?
12 The plant is not somebody that sits there and grows
13 You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’
14 My hair is a very light brown/dark blonde colour and I can never find a permanent colour that covers evenly and naturally .
15 One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner .
16 However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases .
17 But even among such illustrious company as Alderson , Callender , Wood , Martyn and Glazier there is one goalkeeper that stands out and that is John Jackson , who has a prodigious 346 League and 42 FA and League Cup appearances to prove it .
18 twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful .
19 Language thus contributes to an atmosphere in the fabliaux that lies above and outside the describable details of character and setting : an all-enveloping " feeling " of sensuality , shared by the real people involved — the authors and their anticipated readers/audiences — via the medium of the tale .
20 But one explanation that occurs over and over again , and merits closer study , relates to the Holocaust : ‘ It was this Nazi kind of thing … like the gas chambers and what Hitler did …
21 His arms hardly move at all — just the legs move , and his bare feet on the ground as he jumps up and down , and the long tuft of hair that bounces back and forth over his shoulder .
22 No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable .
23 Conversations between agricultural workers on the edge of subsistence constantly refer to the city : a city that exists nowhere but which continually transmits promises ' .
24 Surely an animal of this bulk , it was argued , must be partly supported by water , and their relatively inconsequential teeth must have been adapted for chewing on the kind of soft , luxuriant vegetation that flourishes in and around swamps .
25 The converse of drama , antidrama , is the predictable , invariant mishmash of everyday life that leads everywhere and gets nowhere .
26 And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ?
27 The Second Symphony is a work that wears well and suffice it to say that this newcomer can hold its head high in this company .
28 SPRED is a programme that reaches out and welcomes mentally handicapped children , adolescents , young adults , and adults into the local parish community .
29 Comments a neat shape that cuts well and is attractively iced to the edge of its board .
30 A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured .
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