Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb -s] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been learning the ancient Japanese martial art of san tu dang for about 10 years now and that helps me keep my weight constant . |
| 2 | And that helps you get the game started . |
| 3 | Sometimes I think about her , and that makes me feel all sad when I remember her , cos she 's dead now . |
| 4 | When she 's with other people I do n't always understand what they 're going on about and that makes me feel stupid . |
| 5 | If I stand up to her , she looks so sad and that makes me feel wicked . |
| 6 | We are helping a lot of kids and that makes me feel good . ’ |
| 7 | We are helping a lot of kids and that makes me feel good . ’ |
| 8 | My customers are generally happy with my services and that makes me feel proud . ’ |
| 9 | And that makes me wonder why you 're not being more honest with Doreen . ’ |
| 10 | They seem colosally indifferent to this place , and that makes it seem as if maybe they would be indifferent to her . |
| 11 | He tried to kill you and that makes it look very much as though he 's the person who killed Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 12 | And that makes you feel easier |
| 13 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
| 14 | Furthermore , it does nothing to improve the safety of flying and neither does it affect the manner in which aircraft accident investigations are carried out . |
| 15 | The Smooth Tube does not have to be in a lookalike packet and neither does it need an LED . |
| 16 | Although I can move to another wing of the house , if that makes you feel happier . ’ |
| 17 | And this does you see , you get it with the number . |
| 18 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 19 | The third stage is seeing our anxiety getting bigger and bigger and this makes it get worse . |
| 20 | If this makes them pause , even briefly , it may be just enough for the prey to escape . |
| 21 | If this makes it seem inevitable that Labour 's electoral support should slump , it has to be pointed out that , according to the opinion polls , Labour might well have won had an election been called in 1978 . |
| 22 | ( If this makes you squirm , or giggle nervously , you have just recognised yourself ! ) |
| 23 | But neither does it appear inferentially open like " creative " or " poetic " metaphor viewed pragmatically ( Black 1979 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) . |
| 24 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 25 | It does not make life easy for George Bush , but neither does it make it easier for Congress . |
| 26 | But neither does it depend on some higher authority or a social contract . |
| 27 | Erm it is n't necessarily dirtier than the average street , it does n't necessarily have more dog shit or more paper strewn around it but neither does it have a , any sense of activity within it . |
| 28 | I do n't think in his heart of hearts David Fairfax really wants to employ me , but neither does he want to offend Coleworthy . |
| 29 | But neither does he fall back on the traditional liberal solution of improving educational provision , since he has no illusions about the difficulties of inculcating the civic virtues necessary for proper development . |
| 30 | And you know the only reason you 've got a hang over and you know there is n't really any body else to blame but yourself , but that makes you want to look for a scape-goat , but the kid . |