Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 2 | The history of conflict between the peoples of this region over the centuries was interpenetrated by episodes in which it was subject to the imperial development of Rome , Macedon , Byzantium and the various peoples that streamed out of Central Asia into Persia and beyond . |
| 3 | If only more leading Bolsheviks had left their ivory tower in the Kremlin in early NEP in order to examine Russia at first hand , as Yakovlev did , the reifications that poured out from their pens and mouths might not have succeeded in obscuring the realities of actual life in the 1920s . |
| 4 | It came and went in swirling waves that rushed down from the ceiling and swallowed her up . |
| 5 | She was saddened and alarmed by the white face and big dark eyes that stared back at her from a thinner face than she remembered . |
| 6 | He spoke lightly , amusement in his eyes , but there was no response in the two pairs of eyes that stared back at him stonily . |
| 7 | But the dark eyes that looked back at her were firm and steady . |
| 8 | She had switched the apartment air-conditioning off , distrusting its effect on the health , and for a while she tried to convince herself that it was the unaccustomed humidity that made her so restless , but she did n't really believe it , and the eyes that looked back at her from her bathroom mirror in the morning were shadowy , and hunted . |
| 9 | Iskandara took her hands away from her face and glared at her daughter with the same light , bright aqua-marine eyes that looked out from her mother 's portrait . |
| 10 | There was an ominous tightness to his mouth , a line of white fury , a threat in the dark eyes that burned down at her . |
| 11 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 12 | They would all be troglodytes before the war was over , thought Lucinda , with eyes that stood out on little stalks . |
| 13 | A splattering of gigs in London actually dragged the journalists that mattered out of their ivory towers . |
| 14 | The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure . |
| 15 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 16 | He let his dark eyes drift over her sodden figure , over the T-shirt , now quite transparent , which clung to her wetly , displaying a pair of nipples that stuck out like doorknobs . |
| 17 | Her soft rounded breasts were revealed , peaked by erect nipples that stood up like rosebuds , and when his lips claimed them she was gripped by an aching pleasure that caused small sighs of ecstasy to betray her delight . |
| 18 | Then , when Uncle Guy arrived from Dublin he brought them a present , an enormous box of chocolates which was made like a chest or jewel box with trays that pulled out like small drawers , containing different foil-wrapped shapes . |
| 19 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 20 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 21 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 22 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 23 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |
| 24 | Yeah it was the two training aspects that came out of that meeting one was |
| 25 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 26 | All around him , not only on the huge main trunk of the tree but also on all the big branches that grew out of it , other tiny windows were opening and tiny faces were peering out . |
| 27 | For a moment Nicholas , too , saw the future as something splendid and bright ; a fertile island , well run and blooming , and owing nothing to all the nations that warred round about it . |
| 28 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 29 | Scientists have studied how the cloud of electrons , protons and neutrons that came out of the big bang would have coalesced to make nuclei and atoms ; their studies correctly predict the proportion of various chemical elements in the universe . |
| 30 | It was one of the schools that came out of the Reformation , for it was founded during the reign of Queen Mary by a landowner who sat for Derbyshire in Parliament . |