Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all . |
| 2 | The sudden jerky movement rocked the boat , creating a wave that knocked them both off balance . |
| 3 | They gave the place a summery look , an ironic note considering the winter that cloaked them both . |
| 4 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 5 | Yet , their frame of mind was always streaked with anxiety that caused them both to be forever on the watch . |
| 6 | The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er |
| 7 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 8 | These front line workers , like the rest of us , have certain taken-for-granted ideas about ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ parenting , and they are also given expert knowledge that tells them some of the factors to which child abuse is positively related . |
| 9 | He was not good at knowing when a bit of humour would go down well , but by late afternoon there was some news that cheered them all . |
| 10 | It collapsed like a punctured airbag , except that what came forth was not air but rank , fetid water , vomiting out in a copious stream and bringing with it a stench that sent them both staggering back several paces . |
| 11 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 12 | Across the warm , sun-filled expanse of wilderness their eyes met with an impact that held them both motionless . |
| 13 | Their feelings were intense , and he made love to her with an ardour she met and matched with a fiery passion that consumed them both in a blaze of glory . |
| 14 | She kneaded at his chest in an agony of rapture before clinging , nails biting into him as he drove deeper , striking into the heart of her desire with a passion that convulsed them both and hurtled them to a zenith of sensation stunning in its ferocity . |
| 15 | And about the spider 's web of international capital that links them all — rich and poor , East and West — together . |
| 16 | Probably Tyndall took a design from each and employed Bridges to make the model that bound them all fairly convincingly together as they now stand , each fine in its way but inconsequential . |
| 17 | They will need space and comfort , perhaps a garden if they have always been used to one and enjoy gardening , and , above all , they will need a property that gives them some self esteem and security . |
| 18 | They 're interested in the children and in the little bus that picks them all up . |
| 19 | The soil is pushed beyond its capabilities with nitrogen fertilisers , crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent damage from insects , disease and fungus , and from birth animals join an endless , often cruel production line that denies them any dignity . |
| 20 | Finally , she abandoned herself to him once again , the moonlight playing on their bodies as they loved each other with a strength that surprised them both . |
| 21 | Rain dragged Barbara Coleman away , with an urgency that took them both off balance . |
| 22 | She reached up , holding his face between her hands , drawing his mouth back to hers to kiss him with an open-mouthed urgency that sent them both spinning out of control . |
| 23 | Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are almost as funny as they are in The Mary Whitehouse Experience , the show that earnt them this sitcom . |
| 24 | The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be . |
| 25 | its the Japanese that started them all of |
| 26 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 27 | In this kind of house , in this kind of street , they soon collect a grey film that makes them all look much the same . |
| 28 | ‘ You looked beautiful , ’ he said after a pause that agonized them both . |
| 29 | Death that gave them such a profound and lasting understanding of each other . |
| 30 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |