Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The plant is not somebody that sits there and grows |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The converse of drama , antidrama , is the predictable , invariant mishmash of everyday life that leads everywhere and gets nowhere . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | SPRED is a programme that reaches out and welcomes mentally handicapped children , adolescents , young adults , and adults into the local parish community . |
| 7 | MARRIAGE — It refers both to the social institution that sets up and sanctions the union of persons of opposite sex ( see family ) and to the state of being married . |
| 8 | Still , I grant him many points , particularly his maintaining that Wagner is representative of a modern dilettantism that sucks up and swallows everything of any artistic interest ; but precisely from this standpoint , one can not be astonished enough at … a disposition that allies indestructible energy with many-sided artistic gifts … |
| 9 | This is the money that comes in and goes out of your bank account . |
| 10 | But you know you 'll always get the chap that comes along and lifts the guard to get his hand in and he loses a finger and he blames that he blames the firm . |
| 11 | These molecules are proteins , which are embedded in the cell 's surface membrane and have one portion that sticks out and binds to a similar or complementary molecule on adjacent cells . |
| 12 | Better a steady flame than one that flares up and burns itself out . ’ |
| 13 | They just want something that runs about and barks at the right times . |
| 14 | It was the same old story — plenty of Leeds dominance , and a defence that rolls over and sticks its feet in the air with great regularity . |