Example sentences of "that [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , after much hesitation — all Agnese 's stuff looked so expensive ! — Ronni selected a blue silk jersey dress the colour of her eyes that clung to her in all the right places and looked sensational , and a pair of matching blue sandals that , miraculously , fitted . |
| 2 | As he followed the path that led towards it between bare-branched shrubs and sturdy evergreens , he fancied for a moment that he would come upon Morpurgo and find him a replica of himself , some doppelgänger of Dysart 's devising planted here in England whilst he had been banished to Rhodes . |
| 3 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 4 | Wexford took in the looks that passed to her from each of her visitors , her mother 's merely solicitous , Pertwee 's indicative of deep affection , Bardsley 's shifty , while the thwarted bride leaned forward , stuck out her chin and nodded her utter committed partisanship . |
| 5 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 6 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 7 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 8 | The UGT , together with a smaller union , the Sindicato Libre Ferroviario ( SLF ) that merged with it in 1984 , was predominant only among ‘ movement ’ staff ( that is signalling and station staff handling the control and movement of trains ) , and among the scarcely unionized technical and managerial staff ( Encinas 1986 : 182 ) . |
| 9 | The arguments for nationalisation , the performance of nationalised industries and the disenchantment that developed with them in some quarters are studied . |
| 10 | The high street stores , and even the designers , are finding there is great value in maintaining , shapes , colours and styles that worked for them in previous seasons . |
| 11 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 12 | She had to salvage her pride , forsake forever the tenderness that ached within her for this man … |
| 13 | Jess shivered , looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity . |
| 14 | However , Pakistan have , in my opinion , paid for the Gatting/Rana affair and all that went with it in 1987 . |
| 15 | Stifling the pang of uncivilised jealousy that shot through her at that thought , Folly eased herself into the driver 's seat and slammed the door . |
| 16 | The thought caused her to quiver with a surge of jealousy that swept through her with frightening force . |