Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [that] [vb base] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A kind of numbness acts as a shell against not only death itself , but against all the implications of loss that go with it . |
| 2 | A period of conditioning on the Verdun battlefield manufactured a callousness towards one 's own wounded , and an apathetic , morbid acceptance of mutilation that seem to us — in our comfy isolation — almost bestial . |
| 3 | Cornelius 's smile , reaching Harry across the grey pool of light that spread between them , glistened like the fly on a fisherman 's line . |
| 4 | I shall isolate six points of difference that seem to me important to our appreciation of why it is that children normally find writing difficult . |
| 5 | Equally , how is language pedagogy to be defined in relation to other areas of enquiry that impinge upon it ? |
| 6 | The fire service will use Alpha House and the 2.4 acres of ground that come with it for practical and theoretical training courses . |
| 7 | The objection touches on large issues in the philosophy of language and in epistemology , but a relatively brief reply , distinguishing various lines of thought that enter into it , is certainly possible . |
| 8 | His head was throbbing and his body was a bruise radiating from a single abscess of pain that cut through him at every step . |