Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Morse and Lewis stood , rather warily , beside the car as Downes began to fiddle ( once more ) with a hearing-aid one which looked to them suspiciously like the model that had earlier given rise to such piercing oscillation . |
| 2 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 3 | Esther hinted that it was the grim circumstances of their childhood that had drawn them together with a love that dared not speak its name . |
| 4 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |
| 5 | right cos then you 're taking them away from the fact that you want other quotes right , they 'll say to you oh we were n't thinking of doing it actually until the winter , right and then you can say to them well let me just say that by placing your order in now we can put your installation in hand , right , basically at today 's prices , right , on an extended delivery , right , and you can still qualify for a special offer , right |
| 6 | She had to get them away from the rocks that edged the shore like jagged teeth . |
| 7 | He sent me away with the assurance that I was not homosexual , and a grasp of the breathtaking logic of my sexual development was all I needed to gain the confidence to become a red-blooded , penis-toting , figure-of-eight-female-body-screwing heterosexual man . |
| 8 | I pay tribute to them tonight for the work that they have undertaken in an attempt to keep us aware of what is happening out there . |
| 9 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 10 | Naturally enough , this called forth the response , ‘ Why speak ye so of the mirth that is in Heaven ? |
| 11 | I , I want to talk to you about er the conversation I had with Alec yesterday , he seems to be inundated with having to get details about on his er , all his paperwork and so on , and he seems to be inundated and he sounded a bit low , quite frankly , to me yesterday on the phone that he was getting inundated with all this |
| 12 | I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre . |
| 13 | I can not say thank you enough for the effort that has gone on . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Did it strike you just before the accident that Harriet looked woozy or unsteady in the saddle ? ’ |
| 15 | But , secondly , it seems to me plain as a pikestaff that the building society , in parting with its money , relied on the transfer . |
| 16 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 17 | Another is to ease her gently into the awareness that your visit will be shorter than usual , doing so some time after you have greeted her affectionately on your arrival and listened patiently to her news , views or troubles . |
| 18 | Lacuna came to a stop behind her , and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender . |
| 19 | Zara 's family and tennis friends in Northern Ireland have undoubtedly given her much of the help that she needed , but the lack of adequate facilities , together with a dormant tennis structure in the province , has left Zara — and other tennis hopefuls — without the opportunity that perhaps her efforts deserve . |
| 20 | Lewis greeted him warmly with the assertion that he was possibly the wittiest man in Europe . |
| 21 | When my hon. Friend meets the chairman of the East Cumbria authority , will he congratulate him warmly on the fact that having , since 1982-83 , secured a budget increase , after inflation , of almost 15 per cent . |
| 22 | The Doctor fixed him squarely with a look that had frozen the hearts of evil intelligences the universe over . |
| 23 | He clasped her about the waist , she pushed him away with a gesture that would have felled a man . |
| 24 | Although comedy came to him easily in the sense that he seems to have made the class laugh at will from a tender age , it is , like everything else , something that he works at and it annoys him when others fail to do so . |
| 25 | Too shy ( and now , he smiled at the word shy ever applying to him ) to approach her directly in the way that he usually did with women he found attractive . |
| 26 | And he can go on avoiding him forever on the grounds that he was the one who split the title . |
| 27 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |
| 28 | She stared back at him now with an indifference that almost rivalled his own . |
| 29 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 30 | Shutting the door , he put his candle down on the nearest chair and drew her across to the glow that streamed in from the setting sun . |