Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] that [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni glanced away to hide the flush that touched her cheeks . |
| 2 | Hari quickly moved to the foot of the stairs , her head bent to hide the blush that warmed her cheeks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With your support the RSPB can continue to tackle the problems that beset our wild birds . |
| 5 | Everyone wants to avoid the chaos that surrounded its predecessor JET . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Every act I took which would have been impossible in my own age served to disperse the sheet-anchors that held my personality . |
| 8 | Between roaring fire and loaded table Salt moved grimly and with great determination , roasting , baking , conjuring such delectable smells that Jess kept having to swallow the saliva that filled her mouth . |
| 9 | Meanwhile InterSpray struggled in the second leg , Rio to Hobart , to maintain the form that earned her second place in the first stage . |
| 10 | So they had to get a chap that knew his business and I think he was entitled to get extra money . |