Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their eyes collided with a force that deafened and blinded Isabel to everything else . |
| 2 | Blue , blue eyes that captured and held your glance . |
| 3 | When he was given work at a lathe that rounded and spiralled chairs ' legs he took no advice from the foreman , and instead watched the man next to him to study the working of the machine . |
| 4 | It was the in-between of that sludge-grey spring that stopped and started , flowers bursting out then drenched with sleet , blighted by snow ; skies grey and thundery , rain mean and seeping , wind a slinking greasy cur that has paddled through filthy city ponds and has nowhere to go . |
| 5 | Words that flayed and scorched coming from her lips . |
| 6 | They had all disappeared except for one of the bigger branches that bent and pointed a little his way and seemed now to come and go before his very eyes as drifting mist obscured it . |
| 7 | A mouth that trembled and opened to expose pointed thorns for teeth seemed to work to speak ; over all , the shape of the woodland creature was that of a wolf , but a bare boned wolf , its fur gone , its flesh shrunken on to the jutting bones of its body . |
| 8 | The narrow road they were following was overhung with oak and chestnut trees , their interlaced branches letting through thin , bright shafts of light that flickered and danced over the car as it passed underneath . |
| 9 | Part of the process was interwoven with the Counter-Reformation : Philip 's Catholicism , his court and his Spanish armies and administrators became a further instrument of oppression that unified and heightened the Protestantism of the rebels ( the Inquisition was thus a means of imposing a homogeneity upon Philip 's subjects , the better to subordinate them to a uniform governance ) . |
| 10 | No snow in the air that morning , only the wind that gusted and trapped the men on the perimeter path . |
| 11 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 12 | It was like being in a loo that rose and fell . |
| 13 | His hope was that he would be able to spend the Easter weekend in peaceful anonymity away from the media , not foreseeing that the press conference would merely be the beginning to a story that grew and grew . |
| 14 | Again Wexford was becoming bemused by the colours , by the seductive spectrum that caught and held his eye wherever he looked . |
| 15 | We found a solitary gasolene pump and got the owner of it up from his couch of rags in a kennel-like shelter of tin and packing cases that rattled and moaned in the fitful wind . |
| 16 | On the desk was an incomprehensible executive toy that buzzed and flashed occasionally , displaying chrome tubes , jewels and crystal lumps . |
| 17 | The demonstrators ' tactic of walking into the police lines , while it was a principled assertion of their right to march , invited the violent response that followed and made further violence much more likely . |
| 18 | Though king and magnates depended ( as Chapter 2 showed ) on the labours of a vast peasant labour-force for the surpluses that sustained and funded their activities , their direct personal contact with peasants seems to have been rare , even within the lands they ruled most intensively . |
| 19 | So , while that sane part of her made her half turn as though to return to her bedroom , that other part of her , the part that tingled and loved him , caused her then to delay — just for a moment . |
| 20 | Farms and outbuildings stood out grey-white against the green of the fields and the darker green of the hedges that parcelled and patched the land . |
| 21 | You claim on the one hand how wonderful you were in securing grants for under the I D O. You actually sold this city short because you went for the I D O without making sure that your Government paid the extra money that robbed that robbed |
| 22 | In the intricate weave of the universe , his was the golden strand , and his sisters ' was dross , part of the vast lumpen-knot of the ordinary , the confined mortal mass that bred and died on a million worlds like some foetid yeast in order to ferment a spirit such as his , a spirit which a God-Emperor could sip . |
| 23 | When the marker of comparison is deleted , the text reflects the perceptions of the people , as on the occasion when Lok and Fa hear an echo , and the narrator reports " their words had flown away from them like a flock of birds that circled and multiplied mysteriously … they stood … while the birds flew farther and farther away … ( p. 81 ) . |
| 24 | His weight toppled her to the air-bed that shushed and bounced beneath them . |
| 25 | She drove to escape , not to arrive , like an automaton , gripping the wheel in a trance , hardly aware of her surroundings , the road , the car horns and headlights that blared and flashed around her . |
| 26 | The route was taking her over a highway that twisted and turned across central North Island mountain ranges where the air was fresh and clear . |
| 27 | Much of this small industry was stagnant or declining , especially after the disruption and contraction that accompanied and followed the War of Independence . |
| 28 | There were robes where the pouring light suddenly solidified into rather grisly bones that rattled and gibbered and , on the same racks , were robes made of several different kinds of skin . |
| 29 | The yew trees grew densely , some of them covered with ivy that rustled and rattled . |
| 30 | The Thames barges , built of living wood that gave and sprang back in the face of the wind , were as much at home as anything on the river . |