Example sentences of "that [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caroline concentrated on a spot on the wall while Fabbiano , kneeling on the floor before her , whisked a needle and thread through the hem of the scarlet silk dress that clung to her like a second skin . |
| 2 | In the end , after much hesitation — all Agnese 's stuff looked so expensive ! — Ronni selected a blue silk jersey dress the colour of her eyes that clung to her in all the right places and looked sensational , and a pair of matching blue sandals that , miraculously , fitted . |
| 3 | One , with curling chestnut hair , was five foot ten , and thin , and wore long-legged swimming shorts that clung to him like skin in jagged gold and emerald . |
| 4 | Jay drifted through the dazzle to hold her , kissed her agonisingly soft hair , breathed her perfume , kissed her closed wet eyes with a tenderness that stabbed through her with a sword of fire . |
| 5 | As he followed the path that led towards it between bare-branched shrubs and sturdy evergreens , he fancied for a moment that he would come upon Morpurgo and find him a replica of himself , some doppelgänger of Dysart 's devising planted here in England whilst he had been banished to Rhodes . |
| 6 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 7 | Thank you , but I — I do n't know , ’ Merrill demurred , trying to quell the panic that fluttered inside her at Luke 's unexpected appearance . |
| 8 | Either way , though , there was a belligerency about it , with dials that gazed at her like eyes ; mean , shifty eyes , warning her to beware . |
| 9 | Wexford took in the looks that passed to her from each of her visitors , her mother 's merely solicitous , Pertwee 's indicative of deep affection , Bardsley 's shifty , while the thwarted bride leaned forward , stuck out her chin and nodded her utter committed partisanship . |
| 10 | She paused , surprised by the wave of pain and nostalgia that passed through her at the mention of the name , leaving her weak and trembling ; as if the sights , sounds , smells , tastes , feelings , sufferings of years could be experienced again in a single spasm of sickening intensity : the cold cubicle , the rustle of habits and the squeaking of boots as the nuns filed into the chapel , the stink of stew in the refectory ; her first lesson , the children shaking their up-stretched hands , eager to please the new sister ; Hilda , dew-fresh in her white blouse and neatly-pressed gym-slip , shy and ardent in the back row ; Hilda and herself together in the copse , in the chapel , in the cloisters , praying , talking , joking , sharing secrets , confidences … |
| 11 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 12 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |
| 13 | All that seemed to her to be like a man writing , a foreigner to Italy , advising other foreigners , a teacher displaying his wisdom to likely pupils . |
| 14 | So that seemed to me to be all right . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Despite what I thought to be a clear understanding on the part of their coaching staff , the Republic 's squad that played against us in the St Patrick 's Day match in Enniskillen , was too old and too experienced . |
| 16 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 17 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 18 | It explained the shape of the mystical experience that came to him in prayer . |
| 19 | If there was anything here that came to him from his father , it could be nowhere but in the church , and he had never yet been allowed past the gate-towers , and could not believe in any such concession now . |
| 20 | Now twelve B three is an extra paper that came to you on Monday , quite a long and complicated paper . |
| 21 | The pope 's tribunal was the highest tribunal for all , but why should this tribunal not be extended in practice by the delegation of cases that came to it from all over Europe to judges , acting on behalf of the pope , in the countries from which the appeals came ? |
| 22 | All right , I 'll sit on the table , you 've been good to me , savin' me from those blokes that came after me for nothing . ’ |
| 23 | The rest of the evening was like a ten-year sentence that raced by her in moments ; a sense of endless time that ended far too soon . |
| 24 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 25 | You may be interested in an event that happened to me after our Remembrance Service at East Kirkby early this July . |
| 26 | It will always be a mystery , a thing that happened to me like the seasons , like floods and lightnings , without question or escape . |
| 27 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 28 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 30 | Then I need to think about all the strangeness that happened to you as a child ; my firstborn son has already told me something of your life , and of the questions you have for me . ’ |