Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] that [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly , then , the Conservative party is becoming a party that draws its support predominantly from the South of England , from the rural and suburban constituencies , and from home-owners . |
| 2 | It is best just to find a racket that suits your game . |
| 3 | Sometimes the image they create may be a long way from expressing their real character but the search is on — through fashions , chats with friends , reactions from boyfriends — to find a style that suits their temperament and physical type . |
| 4 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 5 | MANY Arts graduates now find it impossible to obtain a post that matches their training and ability , unless they are willing to teach . |
| 6 | He had sat in the store-room behind the shop here and told her how someone in the club had sung a song that recalled his Nelly to him . |
| 7 | Gossamer , slinky , focused , unfussed — what a treat to hear a song that takes its time and does n't give a toss for the bpms and the clubs . |
| 8 | Mamma d'Agostino sighed a sigh that shook her generous frame , then stood up and walked to the kitchen door and opened it slightly , then said in a low voice , ‘ Enrico . |
| 9 | What 's evil includes governments starting unjustified wars for the sake of oil and then all but ignoring a war that demands their intervention . |
| 10 | ‘ If you can make a film that makes its money back , you can justify making another . ’ |
| 11 | In the last minute of a ferocious bout against Spain 's Miriam Blasco Soto , Nicola applied a stranglehold that stunned her opponent . |
| 12 | He was smiling , if that could be called a smile that drew his long mouth out of line , plucking the left corner obliquely upwards . |
| 13 | Charles Greville , into the hands of Paul Sandby ( 1725–1809 ) who , in 1775 , published Twelve Views in Aquatinta and thus began a vogue that reached its artistic peak with such artists as Thomas Malton ( 1748–1804 ) and William Daniell ( 1769–1837 ) , mentioned above . |
| 14 | You must take time to devise a scheme that suits your own needs . |
| 15 | We were half-way through when I heard a sound that filled my heart with fear ; the tap-tapping of the blind man 's stick on the frozen road . |
| 16 | It was during one of these stops that she heard a sound that made her start suddenly . |
| 17 | The consignee needed a document that justified his claim to the goods at the journey 's end and the bill of lading became such a document . |
| 18 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 19 | Her eyes shot to his and encountered a fire that held her mesmerised and sent a shiver down her spine . |
| 20 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 21 | But actually it 's the reverse , since it 's a struggle to get detached and find a perspective that balances my own inside knowledge against the spectrum of differing views of their fans , detractors and those unfortunate enough to be indifferent to them . |
| 22 | Find a chair that suits your needs and stick to it . |
| 23 | The measurements I have given are only a rough guide , so feel free to experiment until you find a setting that suits your sound and playing style . |
| 24 | This means that those underlying factors are unlikely ever to be tackled and people will come to distrust a government that disregards their needs . |
| 25 | The procedure would have been for the pilot to pull a handle , situated between his legs , which jettisoned the canopy while activating a rocket that fired his seat and that of his navigator clear of the plane . |
| 26 | So Hanson went ahead and brought in outside touring companies that offered simple sets , and a cast of up to ten people , who could stage a place that found its own level in front of people who did n't think twice about live theatre apart from taking their youngsters to the pantomime at Christmas . |
| 27 | Little Billy glanced back quickly over his shoulder , and now , in the distance , he saw a sight that froze his blood and made icicles in his veins . |
| 28 | Tony surprises an oncoming motorist by assuming a position that leaves his legs on the gravel road but takes the rest of him down among the lake-side vegetation . |
| 29 | Some menus are expensive or not realistic for those also cooking for a hungry family , so it is a matter of choosing a programme that suits your lifestyle and purse . |
| 30 | Voronov-Vaux himself wore a casque that covered his whole head , making him seem to be a human lizard with great red eyes . |