Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And there was Gabriel , sitting on the stairs that led up to the bedrooms .
2 She paid the taxi-driver and walked briskly towards the main entrance of the building , slowing her pace as she reached the flight of broad stone steps that led up to the doors .
3 He threw her a final black look and proceeded to storm past her , then paused at the edge of the path that led back through the gardens .
4 Everyone , it seemed , was anxious to contribute , and ‘ Oh , the rubbish that turns up for the Dolls ' House . ’
5 G. observed that although holidays mean a shut-down in industrial activity , they can lead to plenty of pollutions because of the cleaning that goes on in the factories .
6 But you were telling me that there 's a lot of research that goes on in the universities .
7 he 's got er , it 's like a bank that goes up in the fields
8 They 'd there 's a little back staircase that goes down to the kitchens — sorry , lad , galley !
9 All that water that goes th that goes down through the machines is all sent back to top
10 Another speculation is that this odd behaviour ( to humans ) is a genetically controlled one that goes back to the days of the giant ground sloths .
11 There are two types of corn , the hard variety — which usually develops on the tips or top of the toes — and the soft corn that builds up between the toes .
12 A , a curtain is used to screen you off , and if it 's a very cold day we 've got infra-red heat we 've got a lamp above the he , the couch and we actually put on the infra-red heat so we warm you up first before you start , before we start so your body is feeling nice and warm and you 're feeling relaxed , we have nice music playing and it does help right , with the tension that builds up on the shoulders .
13 Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain .
14 In a well-publicised match in February , Short defeated Dutch Grandmaster Jan Timman in a contest that lived up to the expectations for hard fought games .
15 Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ?
16 Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth .
17 For now , 16 years later , and with two children aged seven and nine , she is running , from her Croydon home , a thriving sole practice that fits in with the demands of a young family .
18 In the north can be found lush greenery standing out in the bottom of the valleys that carve down through the mountains , and fields of banana plantations standing against the backdrop of Mount Teide , the island 's dormant volcano .
19 The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ .
20 Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar .
21 The most lethal amphibian venom of all is secreted by tiny arrow-poison frogs that clamber about in the leaves littering the floor of the South American rain forests .
22 Bear in mind that cold cures and certain drinks contain prohibited substances that show up in a drugs test .
23 Despite these important responsibilities the relationship that came over to the objectors was one of cosy acquiescence between these bureaucracies and the nuclear industry .
24 Erm , some specific points that came up in the comments that you made .
25 However , the confidence and sense of involvement that came out of the meetings ensured that all the men in the group were actually present at the birth of their child , and this might not otherwise have been the case .
26 Primitive people had inspired knowledge that came out of the archetypes .
27 He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in .
28 It always seem to be the yachtie women that walk in between the locks , their men seriously at the wheel .
29 Benny found herself standing in a smooth-floored entryway that opened on to the docks about ten feet further on .
30 But , before she could really get under way , from one side of the church , the one that leads out to the dustbins , came a group of three or four people one of whom I recognized as Sheldon
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