Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
14 | Nature , that framed us of four elements , |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | What was it about Luke Hunter that reduced her to such gibbering incoherence ? |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Yes , did you find that hindered you at all ? |
21 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
22 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
28 | If no settlement is reached the shipowners will be faced with the same difficulties that confronted them in 1911 " . |
29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
30 | For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings . |