Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he had decided on his man he moved in with a determination that usually beat the carefully-laid plans of other interested clubs , often to dramatic effect . |
| 2 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 3 | The character , the flamboyance is being f—ed and sucked out of a business that traditionally thrives on the outrageous . |
| 4 | Soon the door was closed , leaving outside , among the gravestones and round the Cross , a small and growing crowd who lingered on with a sense that the entertainment might not be over . |
| 5 | And it sailed off to a island that it came to . |
| 6 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 7 | Instead , he came up with a drink that has spread its alcoholic tentacles around the globe . |
| 8 | He came up with a system that he has named after himself , ‘ nanbudo ’ ( ‘ way of Nanbu ’ ) . |
| 9 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 10 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 11 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |
| 12 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 13 | The idea for this workshop came out of a realisation that Modularity was very much back on the agenda in a wide variety of institutions . |
| 14 | Er I was in the market and we came out with a machine that produced lager from top tap worker . |
| 15 | Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’ |
| 16 | In 1988 , Karl Ludvigsen came out with a study that two of the big six would go away — he predicted they would be GM and Renault . |
| 17 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 18 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 19 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 20 | Karelius was about to correct her when she blundered on into a question that left him speechless . |
| 21 | When we adjourned to the lounge , he glanced down at a newspaper that had been cast aside , commenting in a murmur : ‘ the usual half-finished crossword ! ’ |
| 22 | All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell . |
| 23 | Just for a moment their fingers touched , then broke apart as they both stepped back with a haste that would have been comical if it had n't been for the sudden surge of sensation that arced between them . |
| 24 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 25 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 26 | When Aggie swung round with a lightness that always denied her heavy bulk and made hastily for the door , Millie flew after her and , jumping in front of her , threw her arms around her waist as far as they would go , crying , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 27 | The flame winked out with a suddenness that was almost as startling as its arrival . |
| 28 | The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’ |
| 29 | The Northern Ireland BBC fought back with a ferocity that was frightening to anyone with theories about impartiality by state-owned broadcasting bodies . |
| 30 | The moral revolution , which is very strikingly described in his autobiography , arose out of a visit that he and his wife paid to the Whitehead family , which were then undergoing a family tribulation of some kind , and Russell was deeply moved by their plight . |