Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] that [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was interrupted by a polite cough that came from the doorway , and they turned to see Ling , who had arrived in time to hear Silas 's last words . |
| 2 | This time there was a prolonged muttering that sounded like a complaint and the rags shook as though in anger . |
| 3 | He slowed the car , turning it off the main road down a narrow lane that led to the river before bringing it to a halt and cutting the engine . |
| 4 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 5 | Creed told him to take a right turn , down a narrow track that led towards the ocean . |
| 6 | Passion whipped through her , a raging fire that started in the pit of her stomach and swept through every other part of her body . |
| 7 | Sitting by a potted palm that looked like a fugitive from the desert , she ate flaky rolls spread with black cherry jam , and drank two cups of coffee before setting forth . |
| 8 | Suddenly the stillness was broken by a distressful wail that came from the other side of the square . |
| 9 | He set about drawing up a rescue plan amid a political storm that resulted in the resignation of two cabinet ministers . |
| 10 | Similarly , when the left-wing News-on-Sunday faltered in 1987 , it was not a political institution that came to its , albeit temporary , rescue but a Northern businessman , Owen Oyston . |
| 11 | They also adopted a political declaration that called for a socialist and ‘ planned-market ’ economy instead of President Boris Yeltsin 's free-market reforms . |
| 12 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 13 | Modernity is a historical process that began in the eighteenth century with the philosophical Enlightenment . |
| 14 | One of them was a slim pamphlet that looked as if it might be the catalogue . |
| 15 | Dr Ziolo reckons that such materials could , in principle , be used to make a magnetic refrigerator that worked at room temperature — perhaps , say , a car air-conditioner . |
| 16 | A blistering July day , her thick woollen underwear sodden with perspiration under the hot black habit , a throbbing headache , Hilda more insistent than ever ; a scene in the playground , only a few words exchanged because other girls were watching , but a few words that shrieked under the stress of the emotion that they bore ; an impatient phrase , more cutting than she had intended ; Hilda turning away–nth a passionate sob , running , running … |
| 17 | We followed him across the street and down crumbling cement stairs into a fetid basement that stank of excrement , a place two feet deep in sodden papers , envelopes , parcels and stained government forms . |
| 18 | He was little more than five feet tall , slender all his life , and exuding a febrile energy that served in place of strength until it was periodically depleted and he fell into a relapse , paralleled as he grew older by deep depression of spirits . |
| 19 | They rested secure behind their trade barriers , and it was above all a British initiative that led to the creation of the single European market . |
| 20 | Then the heavy cloud began to break up and the pearly rays of the morning sun beamed down on a spume-streaked sea that glistened in shades of emerald and jade . |
| 21 | This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities . |
| 22 | Indeed , it was on the road just outside Bid array and beside the Nive that I once came close to running a fish over , a glossy trout that seemed to be flipping its way desperately to the roadside and to safety . |
| 23 | It is a rare example of a Scottish company that went to the edge in the early 1980s ( Lord Tombs of Rolls-Royce was brought in as a company doctor to turn it around ) and emerge stronger on the other side as well as maintaining Scottish roots . |
| 24 | Rumours of a ghostly train that appeared in foggy conditions near Ancholme Bridge on the line between Elsham and Worlaby led Ted Smith and Jack Brookes , two reliable men in their mid-fifties , to investigate the tales and discover the truth for themselves . |
| 25 | Sharpe saw one cannon-ball 's passage marked by the flickering of the rye stalks in a darkening line that shot at extraordinary speed across the field behind him . |
| 26 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 27 | Doctor jailed : A doctor blamed for a botched abortion that resulted in a baby being born with a severed arm was jailed in New York . |
| 28 | However , there was a separate issue that stemmed from Mr Gillespie 's original agreement with Lawrence which MIH had taken over . |
| 29 | In a civil trial that began in 1987 , Eileen Roddenberry sued Norway , the company set up by her ex-husband , for her share of profits from the original television show , as well as Star Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , and the Star Trek feature films . |
| 30 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |