Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy . |
| 2 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 3 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 6 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 7 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 9 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 10 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 11 | However , having considered the arguments , Lord Bingham said that it was not a subject that lent itself to absolute rules . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 14 | I also knew the leaves of some trees , plants or grasses that provided us with instant cures for bee stings or bites from centipedes or scorpions . |
| 15 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 16 | Nature , that framed us of four elements , |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What was it about Luke Hunter that reduced her to such gibbering incoherence ? |
| 21 | Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 . |
| 22 | Yes , did you find that hindered you at all ? |
| 23 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
| 24 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 27 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 28 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
| 29 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
| 30 | If no settlement is reached the shipowners will be faced with the same difficulties that confronted them in 1911 " . |