Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 2 | Enter Jeff Bridges , family man , scientist … and the warped mind that carried out the abduction . |
| 3 | Enter Jeff Bridges , family man , scientist … and the warped mind that carried out the abduction . |
| 4 | It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out . |
| 5 | It is the car that took on the Rocket and won . |
| 6 | Wars came early to Shanghai , overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to the gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bond . |
| 7 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 8 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 9 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 10 | The lamps were out and the curtains open , letting in an aquarium light that showed up the room for what it really was : a cold , colourless tomb . |
| 11 | Perdita , bra-less , in a T-shirt and a skirt that buttoned up the front for easy access , writhed and burned beside him . |
| 12 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 13 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 14 | Pluto ( since discovered to be a ‘ double planet ’ ) is far too small to create the perturbations in Neptune 's orbit that started off the search in the first place . |
| 15 | Then she saw Daak swinging above her , hanging by one hand from a cable that ran up the stanchion , his other hand holding the grenade . |
| 16 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 17 | The girls said it was the room with the round window that faced down the town and that Eve could sit at the window and watch everyone and where they went and who they were with . |
| 18 | The reason I started writing tunes was because I could n't find tunes that set up the kind of guitar playing I wanted to do as an improviser . |
| 19 | Zamora in Los Angeles is like Murphy in Ireland , ‘ and most of them are just as tough ’ said McCullough 's manager , Matt Tinley after a bout that brought out the best in Wayne . |
| 20 | The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells . |
| 21 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 22 | The development of Amazonia began in 1960 after the completion of the Belém-Brasilia highway that opened up the eastern part , and in the mid-1960s the government adopted numerous policies that , via tax incentives , were designed to encourage private sector development ( Browder 1988 ) . |
| 23 | This chapter begins by considering the circumstances that brought about the so-called imperial presidency . |
| 24 | The complex relationship between mothers and daughters may arouse feelings of dependency and failure which further confuse the issue that sparked off the tears . |
| 25 | ‘ Ours was a humble part of the operation but we were all full of admiration for the crews that carried out the raid in such difficult conditions . ’ |
| 26 | In Spain , the paradox of Europe is that it is both the whip to modernise Spain by destroying structures of corporatism , grandeur and clericalism that held back the country for centuries , and , at the same time , it demands enormous sacrifices paid by the poor as Solchaga and Gonzáles seek to achieve a capitalism and productivity equal to levels set in northern Europe . |
| 27 | The harbour wall was made of solid concrete in fact the only thing that was n't concrete was the wood that ran down the harbour wall . |
| 28 | The chloroform was distilled off and , as the last of the chloroform was removed , a violent explosion took place that blew out the front of a reinforced glass fume-cupboard . |
| 29 | Why , in other words , should perception be of the perceived object rather than any other object in the causal chain further back in the causal chain ; why every perception should not be of the Big Bang that started off the Universe . |
| 30 | The nuts and bolts of the deal have been put together cleverly to comply with the 1982 Cable Act and with the specific terms of the 1984 consent decree from Judge Harold Greene that set up the Baby Bells . |