Example sentences of "that [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 2 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 3 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 4 | They have , therefore , fewer cultural resources with which to resist the forces that place them in the underclass . |
| 5 | Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone . |
| 6 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
| 7 | There was a cruel taunt in his voice that cut her to the quick . |
| 8 | I hate these people that catch you in the street ! |
| 9 | They were now thirty-odd miles away from the Manchester slums where they had been brought up , a distance that put them beyond the range of mobility of their families , who could not afford to visit them . |
| 10 | Jones revealed : ‘ A lot of people say to me ‘ that put you on the map ’ . |
| 11 | We always promote the sons-of-bitches that kick us in the ass ! ’ |
| 12 | You can even create subject profiles that guide you to the pages containing stories most relevant to yourself . |
| 13 | The area below the stair then becomes part of the lounge , extending back from the glazed folding doors that separate it from the dining-room ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 14 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 15 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 16 | It consists mainly of a diagram of the shape , plus figures that tell you about the sizes , stitches and rows . |
| 17 | The perspective of the poem follows its language , tumbling suddenly into a burst of passion and emotion as the poet struggles to observe the forces that buffet him in the heart of his mind . |
| 18 | Herbaceous forms grow as tightly-packed mats ( Saxifraga , Stellaria ) , rosettes ( Draba , Potentilla ) or cushions ( Silene ) , habits that keep them under the snow in winter and close to the warm soil surface in summer . |
| 19 | A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well . |
| 20 | A forager learns many things about a food source that aid her in the future , including its colour , shape , odour , location , nearby landmarks , time of nectar production , how to approach , land , enter , and reach the nectar , and so on . |
| 21 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 22 | I am sure this would only be a minority but it is always the minority that spoil it for the majority . |
| 23 | The semiotic surfaces as rhythmic pulses , disturbances in logic , and other ‘ poetic ’ mechanisms that mark it as the source of the ‘ poetic ’ in writing ( 1974:22–30 , see also Brooke-Rose 1981:342 ) . |
| 24 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 25 | Regular faces that greet you in the banks , shops and offices in Funchal are to be seen on the eight-kilometre long beach of white sand . |
| 26 | Aft , Grimm was labouring in the stygian engine crypt by electrocandle and lantern light , tuning the drive that bore them through the warp . |
| 27 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 28 | But it is thought , however , that these few people do n't have the antibodies that protect them from the toxin if it is produced . ’ |
| 29 | Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon ; |