Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Service changed hands eight times and there were four lets in between until Soutter broke the deadlock with a tight drop that created an opening and a lovely cross-court forehand slice that zipped away for a winner . |
| 2 | In Proverbs 16 verse 25 we read ‘ There is a way that seemeth right unto a man , but the end thereof are the ways of death . ’ |
| 3 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when they crossed a run that led upwards to a hole , he could hear the rain outside , still falling in the night . |
| 5 | Thus creating a succulently flavoured ham that goes perfectly with a watercress and avocado salad and a few slices of brown bread . |
| 6 | Water pipes in the loft and in any unheated room , such as a utility room , should be lagged with strips of insulating material wrapped around and around , or with special preformed insulation that fits neatly around a pipe . |
| 7 | From The Nab , it is a short walk to the summit , marked by an Ordnance Survey column that fits snugly into a stone wind shelter . |
| 8 | These kindly present-buying people will be set upon immediately by the old cake-shop lady , who will convince them that what all ‘ the young people ’ are going for are these lovely olive green PVC capes that fit nicely over a rucksack . |
| 9 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
| 10 | It too regards greenfly as a good meal , so do n't go bashing at everything that looks remotely like a wasp . |
| 11 | Some butterflies have a rear end that looks more like a head than their real heads . |
| 12 | And remember that the benefits wo n't usually change with inflation — so a figure that looks more like a telephone number now than a pension may be much smaller , in real terms , when you retire . |
| 13 | A day that seemed more like a dream than real life . |
| 14 | The dawn played strange tricks with the pond : it was no longer a muddy puddle , less than ten yards in diameter , but a shining expanse of water , tinted red and silver , and fringed by a belt of trees that seemed more like a forest than the overgrown shrubbery it really was . |
| 15 | Siward , the man who , had he , Thorfinn , been standing under that cross and issuing that challenge instead of a priest , would have had no hesitation in ordering his best marksman to smite him dead with his bow or his javelin . |
| 16 | At night I use a pair of betalites for indicators , fitted with clips that hold gently onto a loop of line pulled down between butt-ring and reel . |
| 17 | Owing to Minton 's technique of holding the design together through the use of a consistent low tone , the colours are darker than one would expect and suggest the kind of livid colouring that occurs just before a storm . |
| 18 | The present churches are right to be concerned that many do not give themselves the opportunity to grow in any faith because apathy and false gods have moved into the vacuum that exists instead of a soul . |
| 19 | ( More precisely , we suppose that the imposed wavenumber is within a range that exists stably in a Rayleigh number range a little above critical . |
| 20 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 21 | But sexual and intellectual promiscuity — the frequent substitution of one partner , idea or belief for another — involves a constant deferral of meaning that leads inevitably to a distrust of language and an uneasiness with regard to self-definition . |
| 22 | It is also of relevance however because it is the only one of the experimental areas that deals principally with a town centre and thus with functions that are as much commercial and retail as they are residential . |
| 23 | ‘ About our business and the Lord Owen 's , ’ said Julian , with a vicious snap that belonged rather to a wife than a daughter , ‘ and worse pressed than we are , very likely . |
| 24 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 25 | Last year Volvo also won the Prince Michael Road Safety Award for safety belt tensioners that operate automatically in a collision , and its 700-series car was declared the safest in an accident following crash-testing in 199 different vehicles by the American Highway Loss Data Institute . |
| 26 | This wistful elegy to the post-Bomb small-town America , The Last Picture Show was probably the first film that pined nostalgically for a generation 's lost innocence , soundtracking Hank Williams ' lonesome holler to great effect . |
| 27 | A Malaise trap is like an open-sided tent , made of fine netting , with a pitched roof that rises obliquely to a peak at one end . |
| 28 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 29 | Elinor had woken up and was trying on a black dress that looked more like a kind of solo tent than anything else . |
| 30 | Yeah , well I bought , I got the C D cheap enough , you know when I bought them that mini unit , that went just after a year , that bloody thing when it packed up , do you remember it was playing in night , in the middle of the night and my dad got up and said what pratt 's playing music , it 's his own ha |