Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] that " in BNC.

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1 That turns me on that does .
2 The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position .
3 He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way .
4 Unless it starts us down that road fairly quickly , the people of the north-east and the other regions will not want to follow .
5 If that 's what turns you on that 's fine by me , but please leave me out of them .
6 Perhaps doing Shakespeare spoils you for that , but I think having a text that is good is important .
7 The children looked bewildered , but she added consolingly , ‘ That 's why dogs have to have an injection every year that protects them against that horrible disease as well as many others . ’
8 And what leads me to that conclusion is the distortion that Mr brought in , in suggesting that the estate is worth forty million pounds .
9 They 're not kissing each other , he goes like that , he put his arm round the other man and he kisses him like that .
10 The feminist debate on pornography often , but not always , links it to that of censorship .
11 If broadcast worship links us into that universal cycle of prayer and that reality , then it brings us closer to the presence of God .
12 Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at .
13 Erm , another reason why I ca n't give you the whole story of course is because then there 'd be no reason to take this baby rather than this baby at the hospital , you know , so their histories are exactly identical , I E nil , erm , nothing individuates them on that account .
14 One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government .
15 Lennox has not yet been hit in his 21 fights and if Razor gets him with that left smash , it 's goodnight . ’
16 Taken as a whole , it appears relatively standardized , particularly if one compares it with that in the USA .
17 at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more
18 There is still a bus and it takes us to that hotel on the port .
19 That policy does not work and if one applies it in that way one can only deepen slumps — just as the Government are doing now .
20 It also goes with the people he moves among , the ‘ circles ’ and ‘ sets ’ of The Possessed , many of whom are travellers too , and with the ‘ quintet ’ which he does n't belong to but is entangled with , which he tries to kick himself clear of , and which dumps him in that pond and leaves his cap behind .
21 As it is they have to brave all kinds of weather , from high winds which whip away their hymn books to snow which engulfs them in that unsheltered spot .
22 There are undoubtedly higher mountains to climb , but something tells me underneath that Beatle wig lies a trace of genius .
23 There are undoubtedly higher mountains to climb , but something tells me underneath that Beatle wig lies a trace of genius .
24 or clips it like that and you ca n't tell
25 I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that and I sai cos this year , I did n't know he 'd done this cos he sits it like that
26 I have no quarrel with that , provided he sets them in that order .
27 There is a paternalistic assumption lurking here , which reminds me of that which led to the disastrous council housing estates of the Sixties and early Seventies .
28 Anyway , ‘ Butterfly Girl ’ always reminds me of that bit in The Wicker Man where Britt Ekland is naked and writhing and patting suggestively on Edward Woodward 's bedroom wall and singing a similarly spooky mantra .
29 It reminds me of that make-the-best-of-it jollity in a jumble-sale hall .
30 At last , their order given , he took a sip of his very dry sherry and said , ‘ This reminds me of that evening we spent together in Bruges — except that your hair was done differently then , and you wore a deep-pink dress . ’
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