Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 2 | I have no idea why it has come to bear that name . |
| 3 | His obligatory attendance of the 40th birthday party of East Germany has helped to leave that self-advertised ‘ pillar of European stability ’ and ‘ trustiest of friends of the Soviet Union ’ looking more unstable than at any time since the Red Army moved in to suppress the uprising of 17 June 1953 . |
| 4 | Freddie 's best known song has helped do that . ’ |
| 5 | The FRG has avoided answering that . |
| 6 | America has got to do that , Russia is broken up so it 's lesser than it is , in fact it 's going down , if only they 'd look , but you see they ca n't do it now without outside help . |
| 7 | a minute , is there any reason why he has got to do that , because he has no other contact with year nine at all ? |
| 8 | Well everybody has got to do that . |
| 9 | His word has got to have that place of authority in our lives . |
| 10 | Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies . |
| 11 | A Russian scientist has attempted to mimic that development by starting with wild foxes and breeding the most timid ones . |
| 12 | ‘ My target has always been to bring the English title to Ewood Park , and nothing has happened to change that . ’ |
| 13 | The ‘ fat oyster in the American story ’ probably refers to the story of a man struggling with a very large oyster in a stew , to whom the waiter says , ‘ Well , sir , you are the fourth man who has tried to swallow that oyster . ’ |
| 14 | 28 ( 1 ) The basis for the assessment of damages referred to in section 27(3) is the difference in value , determined as at the time immediately before the residential occupier ceased to occupy the premises in question as his residence , between — ( a ) the value of the interest if the landlord in default determined on the assumption that the residential occupier continues to have the same right to occupy the premises as before that time ; and ( b ) the value of that interest determined on the assumption that the residential occupier has ceased to have that right . |
| 15 | Nelson says he has striven to maintain that balance rather than provide a recording of the set pieces interspersed with insubstantial spoken passages . |
| 16 | The mood of the whole country has changed to reflect that . |
| 17 | The Minister has failed to counter that argument . |
| 18 | That is how mess gets made chucking that around like that . |
| 19 | She 's got to wear that dress , come what may . ’ |
| 20 | And you 've got difficulties because there they are appointed executor they 're not doing their job , nobody else there to do the job , somebody 's got to sort that out . |
| 21 | Everyone 's got to do that , otherwise they 're miserable . |
| 22 | All as me mother 's got to do that day was the dinners . |
| 23 | And when he gets up and he 's got to do this and he 's got to do that , ! |
| 24 | ought to see lounge , she 's got Take That disco , and Take That |
| 25 | now he 's got to transfer that authority , I do n't think it 's any more or less than that |
| 26 | ‘ He 's got to have that insane desire to be the best . |
| 27 | I think we 've said it before did , about David Lawrence that he , he has the ability to bowl very quickly and in that learning curve of test cricket , he 's now got to go from a , a lad who goes for five and six and all the regularly , he 's got to drop that economy rate , down to three and still take the and then he 's a test bowler . |
| 28 | again , but he 's had to cancel that |
| 29 | How , erm , er , and , and I think as you 're saying what word we put round that , almost does n't matter as long as it 's understood to mean that , erm , that , that range of , of concepts and requirements . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's gone to get that Simon , ’ said Bella , smugly . |