Example sentences of "that [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not an animal you 'd care to tangle with , not even for the sake of the high-k meat that clung to its bones , not while rats were smaller and had less impressive jaws and could , besides , be sold to the lower-Level kind for a bounty of six minims per head , not to mention what their meat and skin would fetch . |
| 2 | Those ladies slim and brave enough to wear the high fashion were ethereal in gauzy dresses that clung to their bodies as they moved . |
| 3 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 4 | It was made of a fine gossamer fabric that clung to her smooth , flawless skin . |
| 5 | To call the bit of silk that clung to her body a dress was ridiculous . |
| 6 | She surveyed his long-limbed body with an attempt at cool detachment , her gaze flickering over the dark denims that moulded his strong thighs , and the jade sweater that clung to his hard male chest . |
| 7 | Francis of Assisi maintains an astonishingly high position of regard in the hearts of many Christians who would comfortably condemn Rose of Lima , despite the fact that as well as chatting to wolves and birds , his own asceticism , and that laid on his followers , was ferocious and absolute . |
| 8 | The first question that arose in my mind was : what have I to do with Orwell ? |
| 9 | She frowned , trying to dislodge the piercing finger of doubt that stabbed inside her head . |
| 10 | there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one . |
| 11 | His mouth smothered hers again and she was aware of his taut , hard body lying across her own pliant form , aware of the roughness of his chest , the sculptured contours of muscle that rippled through her fingers as they clutched and stroked at his skin . |
| 12 | She began to feel the urgent rise and fall of his chest against the compact roundness of her young breasts , and knew a tingling awareness in them that threaded through her entire body in a way that was completely new to her and utterly wonderful . |
| 13 | The new legislation encouraged them into a buying spree that led to their picking up such distribution companies as Ideal and C. M. Woolf 's W&F Film Services , and sufficient cinema circuits to build a chain of 316 theatres . |
| 14 | Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp . |
| 15 | Behind that , among the bogs of the river-plain , was the wide crossing that led to their station last night and then , further north , to Dunblane , where their base was . |
| 16 | Surrounding this narrative is the story of Claus Von Bulow ; how he was found guilty of injecting Sunny with the insulin that led to her coma , and then later acquitted . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's this one about ? ’ she said , as , holding his hand , she climbed the short flight of stairs that led to her attic room . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , how I wish I could go home and find him there ! ’ thought Penny , as she hurried along the footpath that led to her house . |
| 19 | Tasse , adoring , elderly Tasse , had looked after Marian on the journey that led to her death . |
| 20 | It could quite easily have been the job connection that led to her life-long friendship with comedian , Jimmy Tarbuck . |
| 21 | At the same time she 'd had ‘ this disastrous affair ’ with a married man that led to her pregnancy and a late abortion . |
| 22 | CORONATION Street actress Lynne Perrie was recovering in hospital today after what is believed to have been a severe asthma attack that led to her sudden collapse at Granada 's TV studios in Manchester . |
| 23 | Only after 1922 , with the war at last receding from memory and coalition over , did the party take the decisions that led to its successes of the next twenty years . |
| 24 | They were looking , he told the delegates , for a socialism that ‘ renounced everything that deformed socialism in the 1930s and that led to its stagnation in the 1970s ’ , a socialism that would inherit the ‘ best elements ’ of the thinking of its founding fathers together with the constructive achievements of other countries and social systems . |
| 25 | It was symptomatic rather than part of the train of thought that led to his decision : Britain , as a great power , could not leave her security in the hands of the Americans , who , however friendly , could veer so unpredictably from generous international collaboration to self-centred isolationism . |
| 26 | Mrs Marcos may believe that America still has the final say in Philippine affairs ; after all , America persuaded her husband to call the election that led to his downfall in 1986 . |
| 27 | Indeed , it was a consciousness of this problem that led to his earlier book , The New Theory of Vision . |
| 28 | He shouted at the men in the cockpit to make fast the rope that led to his neck . |
| 29 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 30 | Glumly , Henry carried his coffee along the dark corridor towards the stairs that led to his office . |