Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 2 | Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her . |
| 3 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 4 | I do n't know what it was about , but I know that it shocked me into the sort of terror that I did n't know I was capable of . |
| 5 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |