Example sentences of "that [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused , surprised by the wave of pain and nostalgia that passed through her at the mention of the name , leaving her weak and trembling ; as if the sights , sounds , smells , tastes , feelings , sufferings of years could be experienced again in a single spasm of sickening intensity : the cold cubicle , the rustle of habits and the squeaking of boots as the nuns filed into the chapel , the stink of stew in the refectory ; her first lesson , the children shaking their up-stretched hands , eager to please the new sister ; Hilda , dew-fresh in her white blouse and neatly-pressed gym-slip , shy and ardent in the back row ; Hilda and herself together in the copse , in the chapel , in the cloisters , praying , talking , joking , sharing secrets , confidences … |
| 2 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
| 3 | Chirk , trying to retain a hint of character despite the volume of traffic that passes through it on the A5 , came and went , then , across the River Ceiriog and out of Wales into England . |
| 4 | Take a blank sheet of paper and write down everything that occurs to you about the word(s) you have chosen , giving yourself about ten minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite what I thought to be a clear understanding on the part of their coaching staff , the Republic 's squad that played against us in the St Patrick 's Day match in Enniskillen , was too old and too experienced . |
| 6 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 7 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 8 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 9 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 10 | It will always be a mystery , a thing that happened to me like the seasons , like floods and lightnings , without question or escape . |
| 11 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 12 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 14 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 15 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 16 | Simon looked up into the massive , spinning construction of wires and girders that soared above them into the night sky . |
| 17 | Their status will be reduced to that of assembly-line workers , required to bolt their prescribed parts on to the pupils that pass before them on the conveyor belt . |
| 18 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 19 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 20 | All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward . |
| 21 | The County Council as a whole , is now operating and using this new logo amber conditions , that go with it for the employment of the disabled . |
| 22 | More than half the 30,000 Syrians to have entered Lebanon were now approaching the city that lay below them in the early morning heat , its dim perspective merging into the Mediterranean . |
| 23 | ‘ And do n't worry , ’ said Megan , patting a haversack that lay beside her on the parapet . |
| 24 | As he was relating his story , he suddenly realised that sitting before him among the directors was the sandy-haired man he had seen talking to Mr Dwerringhouse . |
| 25 | She shuddered with the feeling that ran through her at the picture the childish words conjured up . |
| 26 | He directed me to a main road on the edge of Jaffa and to a small lane that ran off it to the north . |
| 27 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 28 | Bauthumley , who believes God speaks directly through him , offers his own writing as an imitative model to others ‘ that travell with me in the same birth ’ . |
| 29 | There 's something special about things that come to us over the centuries . ’ |
| 30 | Even when new members are regularly taking their place on Panels , the training continues into every aspect of children 's lives , into care , physical , mental and sexual abuse , criminal activity , and ways of dealing with the variety of cases that come before them in the course of their work . |