Example sentences of "[pron] that [vb past] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Definitely no pier and nothing that looked like a break in the reef . |
| 2 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |
| 3 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 4 | I wanted something that looked like a sea animal . |
| 5 | Quigley leaned down , picked up the box and , from it , pulled out something that looked like a waffle iron . |
| 6 | It was cooked by a woman , or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda . |
| 7 | A squat kit of chunky glassware , an orange rug of Iranian provenance and recent manufacture , a Spanish guitar and a pair of maracas , two oil paintings ( the first showing puppies and kittens asnooze , the second a nude , ideally rendered ) , an elephant 's foot , something that looked like a microphone stand but turned out to be a Canadian sculpture , a Bengali chess set , a first edition of Little Women , and various other cultural treasures from all over the world . |
| 8 | Through the window , Carl saw a man in a white coat run out from under the plane with something that looked like a grenade in his hand . |
| 9 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 10 | Something that exploded with a sound of rending metal and shattering glass . |
| 11 | Newspapers love a good disaster , and a wedding where the bridegroom 's trousers fell down at the altar would stand a far better chance of being reported than one that went without a hitch . |
| 12 | The photograph that Boy looked at most often and which he sometimes even left out of the box and kept on the floor beside his bed as he slept was one that looked like a photograph of Boy himself . |
| 13 | Set out on the benches were models of various shapes : a globe , a long horn , a ring-doughnut , and one that looked like a horse 's saddle . |
| 14 | cos you did n't have to pay tax cos you 're a non-taxpayer and everybody that went to a building society got it taxed . |
| 15 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |
| 16 | I brought my bombs back on many occasions , because I am quite certain we never got anywhere near anything that looked like a target . |