Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] that [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 2 | Mark Morris 's Canonic 3/4 Studies however , a lively ensemble work , was full of tongue-in-cheek wit with plenty of jokes that depended on clever timing or neat contrasts between popular romantic music and unexpectedly awkward steps . |
| 3 | There was something about Mortimer that made her uneasy . |
| 4 | Still , there was something about Maidstone that held Sandison 's attention even after an hour . |
| 5 | There was something about Rourke that stirred her in a way no other man had ever done … but , even so , a tiny voice of caution held her back . |
| 6 | My lovely Gerald was very , very clever he was a mechanic , he was a graduate mechanical engineer and he knew everything about cars that needed to be known . |
| 7 | Perhaps the dream tie in today 's ‘ hands on ’ publishing world is that brown one from M&S that came in a set with its own matching handkerchief . |
| 8 | Two of them made her feel , not old exactly , but as if life was passing her by They were the one from Joanne that said , " You 've reached a quarter century " and the one from Stephen , " My dearest wife " . |
| 9 | The Wheel Tapper was a cider pub , and the only one in town that tolerated the hard core of tomato-faced cider drinkers who , outside licensing hours , sat talking garrulously on public benches or passed out surrounded by flagons on the lawns of the Floral Gardens . |
| 10 | However , said Rosen , their analysts found mycotoxins in control samples that contained none , and then missed them in controls that had been doctored with mycotoxins . |
| 11 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 12 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 13 | I wanted to go ashore , ’ she told him through teeth that clattered together unpleasantly . |
| 14 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 15 | He stared at her through eyes that saw the shadows of many lands . |
| 16 | Were they like vapours that rustled through him , devils owning him while he was unaware , making him smile his smile ? |
| 17 | Alone with her , he floundered ; she kept pushing him under water , teased him with planks that did n't float . |
| 18 | Some of them presented her with gifts that had been made in the centre 's workshops . |
| 19 | Jake 's tone was lethal as he looked down at her with eyes that had turned to blue ice . |
| 20 | And she could not sort out her brain while he stood less than a foot away , watching her with eyes that gave away nothing of his own thoughts . |
| 21 | He was watching her with eyes that blazed , not with passion but with cold satisfaction . |
| 22 | She stiffened , letting her arms fall to her sides , and he raised his head , looking at her with eyes that glittered with anger . |
| 23 | It was fitzAlan , looking down at her with eyes that ripped her heart into pieces , speaking to her in a voice so hard that the words were like blows . |
| 24 | A woman called Charlotte Culham gave evidence that she had often seen Mrs Dyer with small children , and also seen her with packages that resembled the bodies of small children . |
| 25 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 26 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 27 | He stopped abruptly , glaring down at her from eyes that looked like dark chasms . |
| 28 | Oddly reassured by that very lack of sympathy , Luce followed him on legs that felt as if they hardly belonged to her . |
| 29 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
| 30 | He struck again , this time bringing the knife down into the top of the man 's head , using all his strength to force it through bone that splintered and cracked with a strident shriek . |