Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 2 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 3 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 4 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 5 | The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's . |
| 6 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 7 | It was a new and subtle torment , and she writhed beneath the thrill of his touch , feverishly arching against the eddying bands of tension that enticed her towards some undreamed-of zenith . |
| 8 | The secret of her approach was care in preparation , and woe betide the department that sent her into battle badly briefed or not briefed at all . |
| 9 | These middle-class heroes and heroines returned from their exploits in the great outdoors of the Cotswolds or the Cornish Moors to the sound of the gong that summoned them to groaning tables . |
| 10 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 11 | Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now . |
| 12 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 13 | ‘ He does n't live in a void , ’ said the poet 's wife on television , in a cut that shook her with its glibness . |
| 14 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 15 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 16 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 17 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 18 | ‘ I could have you up , you know , ’ she said lightly , with an adopted benignity that froze him beyond death . |
| 19 | It may have been the horse that roused me from my sleep . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't even remember the name of the horse that won it for me in Italy , but I will always have a special spot for Nicer , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ Bending with the wind that brought you to me , ’ he quipped , the humour harsh and followed by a shrug . |
| 22 | It was a clear silver flame that hollowed her with its hunger . |
| 23 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 24 | When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise . |
| 25 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 26 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 27 | Despite the stigma and stress associated with a court case that threatened him with jail , he has so far managed to score 17 goals for Brentford in the First Division this season . |
| 28 | He 'd never felt skin like that , velvet skin , warm and slippery skin that absorbed him into her . |
| 29 | There was a lilt that reminded him of Ella Fitzgerald . |
| 30 | It was not wickedness that led him into crime but a cheerfully impulsive nature and an almost complete lack of reasoning power . |