Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [that] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 2 | Now it seems that the goodwill that once existed has been largely destroyed . |
| 3 | It was the motor lorry rather than the train that really hit coastal trading , for the hinterland of many of the smaller ports is ill-served by main lines , and until the coming of the lorry it was still economic to send a lot of things by sea . |
| 4 | Grimly they hung on , staring at the graduated circle of the instrument , and the indicator that still rested at ‘ start engines ’ . |
| 5 | Clearly there were comparisons with 1974 , but the charge that really hurt was that the Government had been caught unawares ( which we had ) and was not in charge ( which we were not ) . |