Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His experience with Mossadeq also convinced the Shah that he needed his own money , and outside the country . |
| 2 | South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life . |
| 3 | ‘ Most people are wrong most of the time , ’ he said , with such firmness that she slid him another look , surprised ; he was strong behind his gentleness and hesitancy , she thought — strong in a way that was n't common . |
| 4 | Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number . |
| 5 | Shirley Lorimer of Lowdens says : ‘ He invited all his friends round for a party and Glenn and Charlie were so enthralled with the Lowden guitars that they bought one each . |
| 6 | This experience had such a dramatic effect on the Pole that he hanged himself some days later . |
| 7 | Anyway , there is no hint that he gave her any encouragement at all . |
| 8 | I 'd better get some coffee she 's going to tell Joe that you charged her this . |
| 9 | Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ? |
| 10 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 11 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 12 | So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy . |
| 13 | Gay had begun , characteristically , by wishing Susan and Breeze luck in their new home , and it was not until near the end of the letter that she mentioned her own affairs . |
| 14 | He was absently scrutinising her set face , projecting an air of such unshakeable self-confidence that she mourned her own reserves of self-esteem . |
| 15 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 16 | You 've got ta stick to the same order that I showed you this morning , yeah ? |
| 17 | He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience . |
| 18 | The Croats point to the fact that they retained their own chief executive — the ban ; their own assembly , the Sabor ; and their own judicial system . |
| 19 | His father persuaded the minister to conduct the funeral service without reference to the fact that he took his own life . |
| 20 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |
| 21 | And the fact that she wanted nothing more than to entrust herself to fitzAlan 's protection made her nervousness all the more acute . |