Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the question this chapter leaves us , and it is the question that it left those who first heard the larger narrative being read . |
| 2 | The FMLN denied government claims that it was refusing to withdraw its forces to appointed territories , that it had under-reported its arms and troop inventories , or that it was encouraging land occupations and was planning to establish agrarian settlements in a disputed border area with Honduras . |
| 3 | Not that it had all its own way . |
| 4 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 5 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 6 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 7 | Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’ |
| 8 | It 's only on the ground , that it becomes apparent what he 's overcome to reach these heights . |
| 9 | ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes . |
| 10 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |
| 11 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |