Example sentences of "[that] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wearing these badges , the overwhelmingly white visitors roam about the galleries , from one installation condemning the racism of white America to a humming collection of heating ducts that its creator calls a model of a nuclear reactor . |
| 32 | Morgan and others gave birth to the modern American corporation , but ensured that its mouth contained a silver spoon . |
| 33 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 34 | Fort Augustus offers two things worth relishing : that its canal provides a waterway down to Loch Oich and Loch Lochy and into Loch Linnhe and therefore out to sea and to Mull and Manhattan and Newfoundland . |
| 35 | Next , a long tapering round metal pricker was inserted so that its point penetrated a short distance into the powder . |
| 36 | Commodore argues that its commitment to support a third party CDTV publishing industry is as strong as ever . |
| 37 | His long-suffering wife Elsie knew that her man had a mistress tucked away somewhere . |
| 38 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 39 | I think the fact that her parents kept a baby book on her until she was sixteen reveals the way in which a certain obsession was shown on their part with how she looks , and with her developing body . |
| 40 | At first neither Ceauşescu 's guards and officials nor the older professional participants in the display wanted to let the young woman take part , but she did nothing to banish any assumption that her surname indicated a relationship with the First Lady . |
| 41 | The King 's countenance denoted neither surprise or displeasure ; he discoursed with his daughter on ordinary topics , but finished the conversation by observing that her skin indicated a neglect of her customary ablutions , and that it was proper she should bathe . |
| 42 | With very poor timing , Posi announced that her perceptors showed a Famlio gunship sliding by within visual range of the Valve . |
| 43 | In a Canadian case , Duchane v Davies [ 1984 ] CLY 2291 , the defendant was denied a finding of contributory negligence against an infant for failing to wear a seat belt because she was too young and against her mother because he had failed to plead contribution or indemnity against her for failing to ensure that her daughter wore a seat belt . |
| 44 | Now the remarkable circumstance , recorded by Anna Dostoevsky in her memoirs , is that her husband had a foreboding of political disturbances at the Academy , and fearing that his brother-in-law ‘ because of his youthfulness and weakness of character might take an active part in them ’ , he persuaded Anna 's mother it would be a good thing if the young man came to them in Dresden : which he did in October of 1869 , the month before Ivanov was murdered . |
| 45 | The fact that her husband had a mistress did n't diminish the affection he had for his wife . |
| 46 | Hormone replacement pills are discovered in the bathroom cabinet , and Clara starts going bonkers as she realises that her husband wants a sex change . |
| 47 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 48 | So deep was the contrast between Gunnell and her rivals that her victory seemed a more significant moment than even Linford Christie 's unblinking run to 100m gold . |
| 49 | She added that her father kept a lot of guns in the house . |
| 50 | She 's convinced that her father knows a great deal about her uncle and his businesses , but Dad refuses to discuss any aspect of the matter . ’ |
| 51 | In fact she was so wrathful that her mind conjured a bleak picture of the situation . |
| 52 | She remembered too that her mother made a terrible clatter with the plates on purpose , Cati knew , because she said afterwards she was scared of such talk , she never liked it when the men got angry , as she put it , what was the use ? |
| 53 | Only half understanding the significance of it , Constance realised as she stood watching the rain that her mother had a secret , separate life in a grown-up world from which she was excluded . |
| 54 | She had liked that idea , and thought somehow that her mother kept a watchful eye on her . |
| 55 | The Prime Minister believes that her words strike a chord with the British public . |
| 56 | Staring at her wordlessly , she noticed that Doreen 's lips appeared to be thinner than usual , and that her eyes held a glitter that betrayed subdued anger . |
| 57 | Suppose that I expect a colleague to give me a lift home this evening , but that her car has a flat battery ; this wo n't stop us , however , because a friend 's car is parked conveniently near with some jump leads which we can use to get her car to start . |
| 58 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 59 | Instantly , Mr Bumble sat down by the fire and gave the widow such a warm smile that her face turned a delicate pink . |
| 60 | After the outbreak of the Reformation crisis , Henry 's overseas ambitions were unabated , and it seems certain that their cost played a major part in prompting the rapacious seizure and subsequent disposal of the monastic lands , the greatest tenurial revolution in English history since the Norman Conquest . |