Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ford ‘ Edsel ’ , unveiled as the car that had everything in the way of advanced engineering , flopped like a dead duck with the public which presumably was little interested in engineering . |
| 2 | Tony takes the hint and decides not to wax equally lyrical about the Svalbard storm that kept everyone in the tent for seventy-two hours , unable to go out for anything . |
| 3 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 4 | Because now I know there 's nothing behind the fancy shirt that interests me in the slightest . ’ |
| 5 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 6 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 7 | now we 're going to finish off with a sport that enjoys itself in the summer … grass track racing … thousands were out over the weekend to watch the midland finals in Worcestershire |
| 8 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 9 | MURDER , love affairs , violence , robberies , mounting debts … our soap operas are packed full of every gloomy scenario that surrounds us in the real world . |
| 10 | So I guess the bucket of cold water that hit me in the face did n't come as much of a surprise . |
| 11 | Apart form the Air Mont blanc Cessna that buzzed us in the late afternoon , if not the whole range , to ourselves . |
| 12 | It was perfectly natural that Jake should marry — and , apart from how it might affect Kirsty , it was not an event that interested her in the slightest . |
| 13 | ‘ He came over incensed , accusing me of hitting the ball that struck him in the testicles … it 's a reflection of the degree of tension . ’ |
| 14 | The idea that there is some grand unified theory that determines everything in the universe raises many difficulties . |
| 15 | A quick , sharp beverage that hits you in the throat and then in the guts ; that changes , perhaps only for a time , your way of seeing the world ? |
| 16 | DEREK RANDALL , Nottinghamshire 's former England batsman , is recovering from a cartilage operation to cure knee trouble that hampered him in the closing stages of the season . |
| 17 | ‘ The dog that did nothing in the night-time , eh ? ’ |
| 18 | First Floss and Tibbs retired to their tent to dispel this foretaste of the middle-aged grossness that awaited them in the exercise of their healthy young bodies . |
| 19 | " Tell me , my sister , " said Vasilissa , " who was the white knight that passed me in the forest ? " |
| 20 | I am hopeful that we will find a consistent model that describes everything in the universe . |
| 21 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 22 | One thing that intrigued me in the course of my meeting with Kagan was his careful enquiries about what duties were involved in membership of the House of Lords . |
| 23 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 24 | Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap . |
| 25 | He is now a forgotten man who will while away his twilight years alone and insecure in an alien land , longing to return to Russia.The KGB has not been slow to remind its senior intelligence personnel of the isolated lifestyle that awaits them in the West should they be tempted to defect , pointing out the benefits of enjoying a relatively luxurious and secure existence in Russia . |
| 26 | A forager learns many things about a food source that aid her in the future , including its colour , shape , odour , location , nearby landmarks , time of nectar production , how to approach , land , enter , and reach the nectar , and so on . |