Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] that [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 2 | Delaney and Forster were engulfed in a hammering storm of water that forced them almost to their knees . |
| 3 | In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’ |
| 4 | And yet how could the non-Russians indefinitely accept a division of labour that left them , in some cases , as ‘ raw material ’ republics , exporting their primary produce and importing more expensive manufactured goods ? |
| 5 | Although Father and Helmut did business with one another , it was their work for refugees that brought them close and endeared Helmut to Mother and Father . |
| 6 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |
| 7 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 8 | It was drawing room for people that had them . |
| 9 | The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be . |
| 10 | By entering the forest she and Allen had launched themselves into a stream of events that carried them with it . |
| 11 | They were rocket propelled bombs with wings that enabled them to be launched and to fly in a straight line until the rocket fuel was used up , then to fall on the unfortunate people and buildings below . |
| 12 | The peck landed somewhere around her right ear , accompanied by an awkwardness of movement that implied they would have rather avoided the situation . |
| 13 | Moments of panic in the national efficiency debate often orchestrated by the new popular press — enabled medics to dramatically represent their new scientific concepts in ways that gained them intellectual hegemony and popular credibility . |
| 14 | Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change . |
| 15 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 16 | A blaze of glory , a fury of passion that left them weak and trembling in each other 's arms . |
| 17 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 18 | Consequently , cooperation was defined by the professionals in terms that allowed them , in the words of the community nurse , to ‘ intervene within the family and explore deficits in the parenting role ’ . |
| 19 | Little Gabriels , out of control most of the time and impossible to educate , but with a fund of kindness that led them to rescue and foster wounded animals and plague her with them in the home . |
| 20 | In the end , it was geography ( in the form of the river Loire ) and Joan of Arc that saved them . |
| 21 | In short Moses Moses revealed to that like the Egyptians each generation of Jews that gave them their character in general which is that today |
| 22 | And it was lack of money that stopped them going away . |
| 23 | There was a school of thought that said they should kill the human , whose mad eyes followed them around the floor . |
| 24 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 25 | Three main schools of fighting came into being : ‘ naha-te ’ , ‘ tomari-te ’ and ‘ shuri-te ’ , named after the towns on Okinawa that nurtured them . |
| 26 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 27 | Subjective meanings , however , for Weber were the very constituent of actions that made them social and , hence , the subject matter of sociology . |
| 28 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 29 | Would we wish a return to be days when children were deported for stealing the loaf of bread that kept them alive ? |
| 30 | They were similar types : happy , uncomplicated , but with an undercurrent of seriousness that made them want to take different directions , see with their own eyes , not other people 's . |