Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both her mortality and her immortality scared them until they kept their distance , and invented stories about her powers that made them shiver in their bones . |
| 2 | But those that came from arid islands and had to crane their necks in order to reach branches of cactus or leaves of trees , had much longer necks and a high peak to the front of their shells that enabled them to stretch their necks almost vertically upwards . |
| 3 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 4 | Shiona watched it , reflecting that the reason for her sensitivity was that her private life was the only area of her existence that gave her absolutely no satisfaction at all . |
| 5 | On the traditional visit to American aircraft carrier in the harbour , reported Paris-Match : ‘ With a toss of her head that sent her ponytail flying , the Midway was engulfed in a streak of lightning from thousands of flashbulbs and cries of admiration . ’ |
| 6 | It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership . |
| 7 | It was the betrayal of her trust that made her flutter with anger . |
| 8 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 9 | And it was surely only her memory of her mother that made it repulsive . |
| 10 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 11 | And before he could stop himself some part of his brain that had nothing to do took control of his mouth and added , ‘ Heroes , in fact . ’ |
| 12 | It was n't the uncertain nature of his livelihood that worried him , nor the police visits , although he had twice been invited to accompany the officers to the station . |
| 13 | But she could not disregard the friendly warmth of his arms that held her safe from herself until , impossibly , she fell asleep . |
| 14 | However , as fortune would have it , when I put my ear to M. Dupont 's door , I happened to hear Mr Lewis 's voice , and though I can not recall precisely the actual words I first heard , it was the tone of his voice that raised my suspicions . |
| 15 | He smiled , a slow cynical twist of his lips that left his eyes empty of all emotion . |
| 16 | Sometimes he felt that it was only the power of his concentration that kept everything in order . |
| 17 | There was something raw about him ; his body sweated to its essence , his face betraying a hunger behind its symmetry that lent him a bedevilled look . |
| 18 | It was the way that their shoulder bones and ribs stood out , and their stomachs fell right into their backbones that reminded me so much of myself . |
| 19 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 20 | I like to think it was the gun in my bunker that hit it and forced the pilot to turn tail and dump his bombs . |
| 21 | Apart from making a number of impressive black and white studies of the rugged terrain , he also photographed local people , always on the look-out for strength and dignity in their faces that showed they had not been eroded by the harsh circumstances in which they lived . |
| 22 | In January 1977 , amid rumours of a personality clash with Crawford , Frances Cuka left the production , exercising a clause in her contract that allowed her to go after four months . |
| 23 | There was a wild quality in her innocence that startled him ; it was as if he had violated and deflowered her quite by mistake . |
| 24 | There was a silence , which told him he 'd scored a bull's-eye , and then an over-bright tone in her reply that confirmed it . |
| 25 | There were movements in her body that frightened her . |
| 26 | Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure . |
| 27 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |
| 28 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 29 | Putting a companionable arm round her shoulders that made her shiver with awareness , he urged her in the direction of the village . |
| 30 | So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted . |