Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 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 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 4 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 6 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 7 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 8 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 9 | One of the things that helped us over this difficult period was the fact that earlier that year the cutter crews had decided to form their very own association . |
| 10 | What was it about Luke Hunter that reduced her to such gibbering incoherence ? |
| 11 | Yes , did you find that hindered you at all ? |
| 12 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 13 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 14 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
| 15 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |
| 16 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 17 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 19 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 20 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 23 | She could feel her own heart pounding against her ribs and there was a passionate urgency inside her that robbed her of all thought . |
| 24 | About twenty minutes later he looked at me and said , ‘ Well , I was thinking about advertising a job that looked something like this . ’ |
| 25 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 26 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 27 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 28 | Vermeer sprang to mind as there is also something about the intense luminosity of the effect of the light-boxes that reminded me of that unique concentration of light in paintings executed with the aid of camera obscuras ( ancestor of the camera ) . |
| 29 | He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him . |
| 30 | What would you say about the fact , the thing that struck me about that , ‘ Councillor Grubb today made first call to the helpline , he said , ‘ a free service ’ which , to me , sounded as though what he actually said down the phone to the helpline was |