Example sentences of "[art] [noun] that [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game .
2 Interestingly , it was not , as is usual , the noise that told us we were approaching a large nesting cliff , but an almost overpowering smell of guano .
3 I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters .
4 Just as we , in our writing , have to find the words that fit what we are trying to express , the most appropriate words , so the characters in a story , novel or poem also have to discover the language that is fitting .
5 Yes , I hope he is , she 's apparently , she 's erm a designer and the girl that makes it she designs the latest beautiful hats and I thought to myself if they 're those tall , biggest , you know those tall sort of round sort of like bowler hats ,
6 I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid
7 Powell and Pressburger could n't find the stories that expressed what they wanted to say to a contemporary audience , Reed suffered a loss of nerve after making two exceptional films with Graham Greene ( Fallen Idol and The Third Man ) .
8 Unlike her workshop counterparts , the nomadic weaver shares the same ancestral heritage as her designs , and is consequently a part of the traditions that pervade everything she weaves .
9 And we 're going to find the person that did it you know cos last it was no , no smoking in the toilets and then there 's no smoking dope in the toilets
10 Yeah It was n't that it was n't the lumps that bothered me it was the uhum , the fact that the edges just does n't stay down .
11 What is sociologically interesting about them is the assumptions that underlie what they say about themselves , and what image they are trying to project .
12 No er the the people that owned it you know .
13 I think can I just say one thing we did actually h it was n't community industry erm the people that did it I do n't know
14 See it 's not the blues that bother me I do n't think it 's just the fact that there 's there might be trouble afterwards .
15 Because , going back to the point earlier on , erm , when I was taught I say , it was a local nurse from th er , the clinic that taught us I mean I 've nothi , nothing against elder women in their fifties and whatever , but I mean , there again , one , it should n't always be females who teach about sex , it should be males , and it should be younger people to relate
16 On the one hand you 've got everything , accounting-wise , you need to run a large company now , and on the other , the bits that make what you send to other people look professional are coming ‘ real soon now ’ in a later release .
17 Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there
18 They pounce on the man that appears whoever he is .
19 The thoughts that torment me I will forget .
20 It 's the atmosphere that causes it you know .
21 As soon as Mach had revealed what he had done , DeVore had pressed the tiny panel at his wrist , opening the channel that switched everything he was saying direct into the heads of his three surviving agents .
22 This is a budget that promises what it will deliver .
23 So can somebody give me a sentence that explains what we talked about the sun is n't staying still it 's , all right Kieran .
24 Clary would smile , nod obligingly , with a look that knew something they did n't , one which delved deep down through two small black holes into a mind of knowledge , hidden inside , never daring to seep out .
25 I joining the company something like that and if they did when you do join a department that does it you have a great sense of belonging , because some of the things you 'll do for the training will be allocated to other members round a team , yeah , all this sort of stuff and it becomes very easy , takes a monkey off your back as it were , you do n't have to worry .
26 Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at .
27 But how will Lachlan handle a wife that knows what he 's at , and has a great clan of powerful relations at her call if she 's ill done by , then ? ’
28 He ran up the street and through the town as far as the main road , where he saw a sign that told him it was just seventy miles from there to London .
29 His expression hardened , became a mask that hid whatever he was thinking .
30 And he wanted , he was a man that knew what he was doing .
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