Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately it was the door that led to the back stairs . |
| 2 | We went through the door and into a hallway that led to the dressing rooms … . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now when you hear that mentioned in the betting shops go no and pull the plugs out of the television . |
| 7 | The people who had not yet moved out of hospital showed no clear trend in their level of participation in meaningful activity , strengthening the case for attributing changes in the group that moved to the community services rather than passage of time or general improvement in all services . |
| 8 | Dimity ran the house , it appeared , and it was her slender arms that bore in the coal scuttles , the heavy shopping baskets and the laden trays , while Ella 's powerful hands designed wood blocks , mixed paint and stamped the lengths of materials which draped their little cottage . |
| 9 | These have been set up , with MSC funding , to make more widespread use of the developments in teaching styles and assessment procedures that occurred in the pilot projects , most of which pioneered the introduction of negotiated learning and pupil self-assessment . |
| 10 | They heard the diesel engine , the quick rattle of the wheels on rails and then the caterpillar of carriages that rose above the stone walls , the small windows flashing in the sun as they were quickly drawn across their view and gone . |
| 11 | Her nerves were not smoothed by two mistimed drives that sailed over the side walls , hurtled under the bleachers and were lost from sight . |
| 12 | A committed runner himself and one of the original running shoe repair specialists , Davis claims that compared with the boom years of the mid-eighties fewer people now look to the skills of the cobbler . |
| 13 | First gear , footbrake and handbrake , he slithered down the shale and slippery boulder track that twisted between the pine trees . |
| 14 | Marian stood away clear of the spatter of water that came off the stone steps . |
| 15 | The tribute that poured into the temple store-rooms , dedicated variously to deities and sanctuaries , had to be recorded and redistributed . |
| 16 | One passenger on a train that arrived at the station seconds before the blast said : ‘ It was a miracle no one was killed . ’ |
| 17 | The quoted position of the pulsar is that obtained from the ATCA observations . |
| 18 | She had not intended changing for the evening , country inns being the right setting for good tweed suits ; but now she took her time about dressing , and chose a very austere frock in a dark russet-orange shade that touched off the marmalade lights in her eyes . |
| 19 | the evening was fragrant , warm and rich , lit by the great wash of gold light that flooded through the cloud chasms in the western skies . |
| 20 | Fenna laughed , an ancient laugh , a sweet summer thunder laugh that echoed off the dancing planets . |
| 21 | But I was n't afraid now with my big sister , and while Mary tried on garments I stood gazing in awe at all the sumptuous clothes that hung in the display cases . |
| 22 | They became one of the factors that contributed to a degree of rural depression that persisted throughout the interwar years and was exacerbated by the deflationary policies pursued by successive governments . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Knowsley , South ( Mr. O'Hara ) — whom I welcome to the Chamber — missed that point in Committee , where we enjoyed the confusion that reigned on the Opposition Benches in respect of this issue . |
| 24 | Hateley was one of several players banned from Ibrox until yesterday in the wake of last Saturday 's defeat from Celtic that brought to an end Rangers ' run of 44 games without loss . |
| 25 | The useless girl that I was might have grown without diversion , etiolated and bland like a stalk of grass under a stone , from those early days , represented still by the dolls and bears that lay on the cupboard shelves . |
| 26 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 27 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 28 | Then he saw — or rather heard , for the clip of their boot-studs on the flagstones was what first caught his attention — a file of boys in football kit making their way along a covered path linking the courtyard to the playing fields that lay behind the school buildings . |
| 29 | Even this limited warfare showed the most independent-minded of the colonists that the English connection had some practical uses , and the English government did its best to live up to the implicit bargain that lay behind the Navigation Acts . |
| 30 | IN THE days when a pocket calculator cost £100 and microcomputers were a thing of the future , I saw a niche for a book of cartoons of the genre that appeared in the computer rags . |