Example sentences of "that [vb -s] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If some people think that I live in a void , as you put it , ’ said the poet on television , ‘ perhaps that tells us more about them than about me . |
| 2 | Well i will be bringing 4 maybe 5 so that gives us 11 plus 3 subs . |
| 3 | That gives us two hours to get there and two hours to prepare before Mait 's people begin to arrive for the ceremony . ’ |
| 4 | questionnaire , and that gives us another reading . |
| 5 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 6 | That gives us some kind of motive if there is , but there 's damn ’ little evidence . |
| 7 | That that does us all the world of good . |
| 8 | The ti bon ange is the other part , that makes us individual , like the personality . ’ |
| 9 | That makes us one of Europe 's most popular and busiest exhibition centres . |
| 10 | So that makes us equal . |
| 11 | How much more that makes us aware of our duty to safeguard the world . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not saying there 's more culture in our family and that Eric plays football as well so that makes us more interesting , I 'm just saying he expresses himself in one way and also in another and we do n't want to be criticised for that . ’ |
| 13 | that makes us mad and shriller than |
| 14 | James was divorced , so that makes us both adulterers . ’ |
| 15 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |