Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [noun prp] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hatch considered him carefully , not bothering to look at the ID card that Cowley had held out for inspection . |
| 2 | Chinese marine geologists and engineers from the 2nd Brigade on board the support ship De Yue in the Pearl River were trained in the operation of the vibrocorer that BGS had supplied . |
| 3 | From her came such a whiff of defeat that Alice had to force herself to stand up to it . |
| 4 | She kicked out of the bikini-bottom that Fernando had succeeded in half tearing from her and struck out for the furthest end of the pool , laughter gripping her and weakening her limbs as he lashed out after her . |
| 5 | Central to Lydon 's action was the allegation that McLaren had signed away the group 's future record royalties to Virgin in order to finance The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle . |
| 6 | Brown proceeded to tell Pincher the government 's version of events including the allegation that Blake had betrayed over 40 British agents , hence the claim was born that Blake was sentenced to one year in prison for every agent . |
| 7 | The command that Christ has given us is this : whoever loves God must love his brother [ teacher ] also ( 1 John 4:20–21 ) . |
| 8 | The command that Christ has given us is this : whoever loves God must love ‘ Boggers ’ also ! ! |
| 9 | A sudden and debilitating attack of the sweating sickness had rendered her unfit for travel , with the result that Anne had accompanied the royal family into sanctuary and her mother had been taken by litter to Norfolk House in London 's Strand . |
| 10 | The impressive performance which characterises his " question " in scene five is absent , with the result that Anderson fails to convince , particularly where his arguments are so insipid . |
| 11 | It was after being cast adrift in a longboat by the mutinous crew of Bounty that Bligh managed to make his monumental open-boat voyage with a handful of faithfuls to safety , and ultimately revenge , on the Indonesian island of Timor . |
| 12 | Capron was also the fifth face in the photograph that Urquhart had wanted to take from the Nowaks ' house . |
| 13 | Sustad is phlegmatic and observes the irony that Bettembourg had remained in Chamonix when he had intended accompanying the expedition . |
| 14 | It struck Manville with no irony that Hayman had dismissed the two largest nations on the face of the earth to focus his attentions on just one man and an airplane . |
| 15 | In Robert Dole , the top Republican in the senate , he faces the most effective leader of the opposition that Washington has seen for decades . |
| 16 | It might be with these frightening possibilities already in mind that Darwin wished to establish the credibility of these new Galapagos species by publishing an illustrated work on them — before he entered upon the exposition of his theories of evolution . |
| 17 | It is easier to understand the attractiveness of his doctrines for the mass of people if we bear in mind that Wycliffe had claimed that property was sinful . |
| 18 | When the man first tempted her and then rejected her , she was ‘ all shamed and confused in herself ’ , was afflicted with horrible temptations to lechery and despair , and ‘ the devil put into her mind that God had forsaken her ’ . |
| 19 | It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service . |
| 20 | It 's a second for Gary , it 's a fourth for Notts and er the little bit of tension that Notts had created for themselves as they went off the boil and came really into the game with their two goals from first of all and then from from the free kick , but 's goal in the last minute here making it four two and really capping a most entertaining night for Notts . |
| 21 | The central figure in his story is always Pope Gregory I. Ralph insisted that the Canterbury case was based on Gregory 's actions and intentions , and on the weight that Gregory had attached to continuity of tradition . |
| 22 | Smiling , even demure , Alice accepted the tea that Mary offered to prepare out of guilt , of course ; and looked at the other two and thought : God how I hate you people . |
| 23 | Whatever the strength of Phillip 's affection for Marje , he was open about the void that Meli had left in his life . |
| 24 | I met the Manchester Olympic bid committee some weeks ago when we discussed the proposed bid that Manchester wishes to make . |
| 25 | It can be seen in this chapter that Green has given clear directions from where the picture should be painted . |
| 26 | One was the awful unfairness of it all , as it really had n't been her fault that Ethel had cast a bad spell on the broomstick she had lent to Mildred , thus ruining the display . |
| 27 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 28 | The first clear indication that Offa had gained control of the South Saxons , therefore , comes only c . |
| 29 | The linear pattern of development was an indication that God had programmed the whole history of life to move in a purposeful direction towards higher levels of intelligence . |
| 30 | It 's another indication that Francis means to continue the Hillsborough revolution started by Ron Atkinson — he changed the thinking in the boardroom , and now Wednesday are as ambitious as anyone in the Premier League . |