Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 2 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 3 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 4 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 5 | Attending aquafit sessions at Waterworld gave her motivation that enabled her to stick to a diet , lose weight and get her walking again … a great achievement . |
| 6 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 7 | I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it . |
| 8 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |