Example sentences of "that [vb past] to [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So that seemed to me to be all right . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It explained the shape of the mystical experience that came to him in prayer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now twelve B three is an extra paper that came to you on Monday , quite a long and complicated paper . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 15 | You may be interested in an event that happened to me after our Remembrance Service at East Kirkby early this July . |
| 16 | It will always be a mystery , a thing that happened to me like the seasons , like floods and lightnings , without question or escape . |
| 17 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 18 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 22 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 23 | All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward . |
| 24 | the listening skill of noting — behind the teacher 's breezy rejection of anything that looked to him like advice — his own sense of failure with a failing pupil ; i.e. understanding how one difficult situation ( failure for the pupil ) may be ‘ mirrored ’ in another ( failure for the teacher ) , with consequent reinforcement of the difficulty through re-enactment of the symptoms by the teacher |
| 25 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 26 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
| 27 | The outer door was thrown open with haste and ceremony , to admit a cloaked and booted gentleman who swept through the anteroom on a gust of chill April air , shedding a knot of servants and gallants at the threshold , and hurling all doors open before him with an alacrity that spoke to her of royalty . |
| 28 | The Board of Inland Revenue had the power to serve a notice on any body corporate , requiring particulars that appeared to them to be relevant to a transaction to which s 485 might apply . |
| 29 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 30 | Jacques Donzelot has argued that women actively colluded with doctors because of the new-found status that accrued to them within the family as educators of their children and as medical auxiliaries . |