Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing of interest or value , nothing that gave any clue as to why the scientist had been killed . |
| 2 | Them that caused this war and them that 's getting fat on it should be made to fight it out between them , not our fellers . ’ |
| 3 | Below , Western Avenue ran from the Hollywood Hills in the north for miles south towards the port at San Pedro , one of many frontiers that let gangs know which turf was theirs and separated one class from another , black from Latino , Latino from Asian , white from the rest , us from them . |
| 4 | He looked across at me and whispered one word : ‘ Rum ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ She recognised me and had some idea I wanted to do a story about her on York station . |
| 6 | Vincent came to see me and stayed all day . |
| 7 | He squinted at me and lit another cigar . |
| 8 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 9 | They remained , therefore , on the outskirts of the town , until , terrified of being crushed by the mob , they decided to seek refuge in the open fields , but they had hardly agreed on this when fresh ash clouds , denser than ever , overwhelmed them and brought total darkness . |
| 10 | ‘ I carried on dealing in Sevens , servicing them , repairing them and did some racing until the economy picked up again in 1965 . ’ |
| 11 | One girl told me that though she had never taken them herself , her friend had tried them and turned bright orange . |
| 12 | He told enough boring stories about them and ended each office day with : ‘ I must go or my children will be afraid I 've got lost . ’ |
| 13 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |
| 14 | They did n't stare at them but had good eye contact . |
| 15 | Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence . |
| 16 | He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving . |
| 17 | Something that wore black armour and had a visored face , and who would not materialise unless a dark and terrible enchantment was spun … |
| 18 | A thing to be forgotten , and certainly not something that had any power in the present except that of a distant unhappy memory . |
| 19 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 20 | The blackness enveloped so warm and close and , I believed , extended infinitely away from the street on all sides , something that made any street plan impossible . |
| 21 | As a consequence , the question of where to eat was one that made little impression on her . |
| 22 | One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me . |
| 23 | Yet — there was an enduring lone voice among the internal babble which held out strong and true for Dane , and somehow its message was the only one that made any sense . |
| 24 | The one that married that chap Walker , from Edinburgh . ’ |
| 25 | He 's not he one that took this warehouse coordinator job ? |
| 26 | C. Wright Mills 's interpretation of the role and relevance of the sociology of knowledge was not however one that received much support . |
| 27 | Ideally the control task would be one that required some sort of discrimination learning , thus ensuring that both groups came to the test phase having had the experience of learning one previous discrimination problem . |
| 28 | There is a reason for this Chairman is that erm I think erm many of us and I am sure we would be deserved by recent articles in the Daily Telegraph er particularly the one that appeared last week which erm referred , I can see in the report , that it referred to a report which is very critical of the work of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of erm Pollution . |
| 29 | ‘ He was in that train , the one that crashed last night , the derailment south of Kendal . |
| 30 | McCandless kept the woman with him and reached another rock , to which he clung totally exhausted . |