Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 2 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 3 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 4 | It was a new and subtle torment , and she writhed beneath the thrill of his touch , feverishly arching against the eddying bands of tension that enticed her towards some undreamed-of zenith . |
| 5 | Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy . |
| 6 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 7 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 8 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 9 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 10 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 11 | That , mixed with the mule 's contribution , produced an atmosphere in the cabin that stood me in good stead for the rest of my flying career . |
| 12 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 13 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 14 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 15 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 16 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
| 17 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 18 | He laughed , a warm , comfortable sound that reminded her of homely , rustic things like sleek cattle and woolly sheep grazing on a West Country hillside . |
| 19 | I also knew the leaves of some trees , plants or grasses that provided us with instant cures for bee stings or bites from centipedes or scorpions . |
| 20 | One of the things that helped us over this difficult period was the fact that earlier that year the cutter crews had decided to form their very own association . |
| 21 | He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him . |
| 22 | But there was another deeper factor that endeared me to that little derelict church at Knowlton and slotted it into my spiritual pattern even tighter than my fictional one . |
| 23 | For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings . |
| 24 | If no settlement is reached the shipowners will be faced with the same difficulties that confronted them in 1911 " . |
| 25 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 26 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 28 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 29 | Each had used her ; none had discovered the essential quality that differentiated her from other lovers . |
| 30 | There she acquired the qualifications that took her in 1881 to Newnham College , Cambridge , where she got a first in the moral sciences tripos in 1884 , and a second in history in 1885 ; she also helped to form the Association of Assistant Mistresses . |