Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [that] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 2 | Primitive sensations skittered here and there , triggering twinges of irritation that carelessly boiled away . |
| 3 | He remembered how fondly Jane had said farewell after her anger had abated , and the memory made him lift his hand to see , in the first creeping light of dawn , the small smear of rouge that still remained on his forefinger . |
| 4 | Clarence , by some curious quirk of fate that again linked the Mowbrays with the royal family , had been arrested on the day following Anne 's wedding and subsequently judicially executed . |
| 5 | This was the sort of reaction that usually followed a burst of temper bordering on rage . |
| 6 | When he was done he unstrapped himself , then took one of the white sheets from the side and threw it over her , watching as the blood spread out from the centre of the white ; a doubled circle of redness that slowly formed into an ellipse . |
| 7 | It was this establishment of bishoprics that finally destroyed Saxon identity , for life began to revolve around centralised locations with the bishoprics generating towns , and the ancient semi-nomadic life was eroded . |
| 8 | The case against Charles seemed a reasonably strong one but it was the charge of frivolity that chiefly told with the Colonel who showed a marked distaste for Charles 's habit of eccentric behaviour followed by unlikely explanation . |
| 9 | I lay in the bath daydreaming of putters that never missed and that were made of priceless and perfect metals unknown to man , of millions of pounds won on the fairways of the world , and of even more millions made off the course . |
| 10 | Superimposed on this was the organization of scientific activity in societies and academies — institutions with codes of practice that often outlawed political and religious disputes . |
| 11 | According to reports from the Romanian capital , the violence yesterday started when President Ceausescu sought to address a staged rally of support that rapidly turned into a huge protest . |
| 12 | He had not been here before and he was alarmed by the vast expanse of water that now stretched ahead of him . |
| 13 | Early in this chapter it was pointed out that at the beginning of the century British governments adopted an approach of relief of unemployment that largely ruled out the creation of specific employment opportunities . |
| 14 | In the state of affairs that still obtained when I entered the profession in 1959 the grammar school teacher and the university teacher of English were not radically different kinds of person ; indeed , contingent or accidental factors might have determined which career path was followed . |
| 15 | The suburban road , narrow and deserted , seemed to stretch onwards towards a narrow cone of light that never enlarged , never diminished . |
| 16 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
| 17 | When we were in school they were saying ‘ you can be anything you f—ing wan na be ’ , and I think that was the first generation of women that ever heard that , except for thousands of years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 19 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
| 20 | He has built an empire through a series of gambles that often succeeded because rivals at first nearly died laughing — buying the Sydney Daily Mirror , starting the Australian , moving his British papers out of Fleet Street , launching the Fox television network . |