Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy . |
2 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
3 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
7 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
8 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
9 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
10 | However , having considered the arguments , Lord Bingham said that it was not a subject that lent itself to absolute rules . |
11 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
12 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
15 | Nature , that framed us of four elements , |
16 | 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 . |
17 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
18 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
19 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
20 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
21 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
22 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
23 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
24 | A confidential study designed to assess the extent of professional abuse , follows investigations in America that showed one in 10 counsellors developed sexual relationships with those they should have been helping . |
25 | DUCHESS IN DISGRACE : Fergie cools off on the holiday that landed her in hot water |
26 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
27 | 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 ) . |
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 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
30 | In addition international collaboration was encouraged by the International Geographical Union by establishing commissions that included one on present day processes , and a later one on field experiments in geomorphology ( Slaymaker , Dunne and Rapp , 1980 ) . |