Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 2 | Gallstones are lumps that develop in the gall bladder when the chemical balance of the bile is upset — and women are two or three times more likely to have them than men are . |
| 3 | Beauty to him came from the soul , as we say , and he saw it as his task to exteriorise it in some way that harmonized with the subject matter . |
| 4 | In appraising the trial 's results it would therefore be helpful to know the indications for transfusion that applied at the Queen Mother 's Hospital during the trial and whether the decision to transfuse was made without knowledge of the policy on cord clamping . |
| 5 | We were now on the glossy blacktop that led towards the army laundry , Rosa 's old creche . |
| 6 | They drove in from the west , on the 243 through Gunzerode , and along the cracked road that led past the IFA Motorenwerk where they once made bicycles and now were being upgraded to motor bikes . |
| 7 | He let the car forwards , down the hill , and on to the white road that led across the lake bed . |
| 8 | Unfortunately it was the door that led to the back stairs . |
| 9 | France 's regional structure , one of the glories of the Mitterrand years , quickly became government of the local bigwigs , for the local bigwigs , by the local bigwigs , and it was rage against patronage and pork-barrelling that led to the rejection vote in the French elections . |
| 10 | Second , evacuation has been identified by many writers as an enormously important causal factor in the construction of that wartime reformist consensus that led to the Welfare State legislation of the late 1940s . |
| 11 | That night , they dug away the earth and drew the nails from the planks and removed the great bars that had closed all the formal entrances into the city , and completed the bridging of the ditch that led to the land gate . |
| 12 | But as he hurried down the path that led to the school gate he ran straight into Tina . |
| 13 | We went through the door and into a hallway that led to the dressing rooms … . |
| 14 | By the second half Scotland was fighting for her life , and a missed tackle gave the opening that led to the home team 's great goal . |
| 15 | He was at the centre of the controversy that led to the Unix Wars and the creation of the Open Software Foundation while on secondment to AT&T Co from Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 16 | The men stepped inside , took the stairs to the right that led to the DEA office and rang the bell . |
| 17 | She squeezed Julie 's hand and motioned for her to follow down the stairs that led to the ground floor . |
| 18 | Merymose clearly had orders to ignore any trail that led to the palace compound . |
| 19 | The corridor that led from the transmat booth had a tiled floor , and plastered walls covered with a mural that Bernice felt she might be able to understand after three or four big glasses of strong rum . |
| 20 | General Etienne not only had to duck , but also had to hunch his shoulders in , just to fit in the narrow tunnel that led from the palace cellars . |
| 21 | It begins with ‘ description ’ , based upon factual statements of objective perception and analysis , and moves on to ‘ formal analysis ’ in which there is a search that goes beyond the surface inventory in order to seek out relationships and qualities . |
| 22 | and outside the porches , to light their number up outside their house , erm people do n't seem to have erm , really changed their ideas very much , we still sell the same type of fitting to people , er the one that goes over the garage doors , on the corner of the , of the house wall , er lanterns er outside the front door with coloured glass in them er things that have been going for |
| 23 | And the person that goes into the radio studio and thinks , ‘ I 'm talking to a hundred thousand people ’ or something like that , is doomed , because the voice and approach you use is a bit like the voice and approach I have now , I 'm sort of talking to a largish group of people . |
| 24 | Answer guide : The point that needs to be illustrated here is that depending on the valuation basis used the profit changes . |
| 25 | The different playing philosophies that account for the North-South divide are emphasised by the views of two of the most successful coaches or recent times — Australia 's Bob Dwyer and Ian McGeechan of Scotland and the British Lions . |
| 26 | She was still talking about the snake that lived under the water tank when Tom swung the wheel and purred rapidly up the hospital driveway , and if his face was still set in a grim frown and he did n't seem to be listening to her words at all , she should n't have minded , because the object of the exercise had been to entertain Faye , not him . |
| 27 | Detection in the heteroplasmic strain of a new transcript whose size matched that expected of the fusion transcript indicated that the deleted genomes were indeed transcribed . |
| 28 | I used to watch them through his field glasses , and the baboons that processed along the cliff tops , the babies clinging to their mothers ' backs . |
| 29 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 30 | The crimps had been used to hold in position the three small swivels that connect to the hook lengths . |