Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Containing the first studio cut of ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ , versions of early Jamaicans singles ‘ Belly Full ’ , ‘ Bend Down Low ’ , ‘ Natty Dread ’ and ‘ Lively Up Yourself ’ , this is , superficially , a simple set of songs that went against the grain of the mesmeric dub that was then dominating reggae . |
| 2 | Cassowary was too far away to see the two splintered twigs that fell from beneath the trickster 's wings and vanished among the tree-tops . |
| 3 | The axeman wore the first beard of a boy and had big ears that stuck through his hair . |
| 4 | These latter ( Ornithischians ) include some animals that walked on their hind legs like Tyrannosaurus , but with vegetarian habits ( Iguanodon , the first dinosaur to be discovered ) ; the group also includes various types of vegetarian armoured and plated dinosaurs , often shown in pitched battle with their carnivorous contemporaries . |
| 5 | Various animals that hunted in this country , foxes , in some places deer , hares are coursed er in some places . |
| 6 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 7 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 8 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 9 | They were prominent in the Silurian and Devonian , where they can be found with the fish-like animals that abounded in the fresh- and brackish water deposits of the time , although some of the Ordovician ones are in marine sediments . |
| 10 | Like animals that dwelt on land , the terrestrial flora also arose from ancestors that lived in the seas , a change that is known to have happened before the end of the Silurian . |
| 11 | By deliberately turning his back on the new spirit in art , Modigliani found himself excluded from most of the excitement and gaiety in the arts that flourished in spite of the war . |
| 12 | However , King also believes that traditional agroforestry led to the establishment of plantation forestry because of colonial timber requirements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that culminated in the separation of agricultural and forestry interests . |
| 13 | She began to scream , high , sharp screams that tore at her chest and hurt her throat . |
| 14 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 15 | He was very aware of her body beside his , of the long legs that shimmered in the semi-darkness , and of the smell of her perfume . |
| 16 | She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule , with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant . |
| 17 | The matron moved towards Elinor 's bed on legs that seemed to be joined to her feet without ankles : she did not walk so much as stomp . |
| 18 | Oddly reassured by that very lack of sympathy , Luce followed him on legs that felt as if they hardly belonged to her . |
| 19 | legs that parted on dark dishevelled gold |
| 20 | Last weekend , the 25,000 ecstatic fans that packed into Coruna 's shabby Riazor Stadium witnessed a massacre as Superdepor put five past John Toshack 's struggling Real Sociedad . |
| 21 | Léonie wheeled , scrambled back past the baker 's , and fled along the boulevard edged with limes that led to the church and the walled cemetery , to the lane beyond . |
| 22 | We were struck by the similarities between free radical signals that appeared after reperfusion and those noticed by Grech and colleagues ( figure ) . |
| 23 | The little Austers removed a significant amount of the in-flight workload imposed on the Lincoln navigators , however the frequent rain squalls that came over the jungle limited their use and as such the heavy bomber crews had to carry out operations with the required precision in dangerously adverse weather conditions . |
| 24 | He stared at it , puzzled , deciding it was pulsating , with red lines swelling and diminishing in the self-same rhythm ; tentacles that throbbed with the heart beat of the central creature . |
| 25 | In arguing the Slovak case for the altar Mr Richard Marsina , a historian charged with heading the Slovak commission for drawing up claims , points to Prago-centrism — one of the grievances that led to Slovakia following its path to independent statehood . |
| 26 | Check the files on those British right-wing organizations that flourished before the war , the ones that sometimes had Members of Parliament on their books . ’ |
| 27 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
| 28 | Her breasts seemed to strain towards him , begging for his touch , and there was a wetness between her thighs that burned like fire . |
| 29 | Behind the fountain of plumes that arose from Captain Astorre 's headgear was the shining head of Primaflora , its hair looped and plaited under the horns of a cap , and a cameo on a gold chain round her throat . |
| 30 | It was a constant in the revolutionary waves that swept across Spain in 1808 , 1820 , 1835 , 1840 , 1869–73 , and finally in 1936 . |