Example sentences of "[noun] that [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 2 | Johnson wrote to Mrs Thrale that however ruined he found it , the Abbey 's ‘ fabrick was once of great extent , and stupendous magnificence ’ . |
| 3 | He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich . |
| 4 | Often they turned out to be more like shocks , and she disliked the tension , the agitation , the feeling of disruption that frequently accompanied them . |
| 5 | I slammed on the brakes , stopping with a jerk that almost threw her on the floor . |
| 6 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 7 | He went from her now , with that familiar slight limping stride that only made him more attractive . |
| 8 | At once the tiny girl was crushed in a one-armed embrace from Richard that almost unbalanced them both . |
| 9 | I 've suddenly remembered that the programme that really infuriated me , when I was tired and wet and Paddy Ashdown was getting away with sheer murder before my eyes , and the polls looked terminal for the Tories , and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was rigged against us , was not the BBC at all . |
| 10 | By tethering the law to the notion of harm rather than peace and quiet , this definition places the law on a more stable footing in the world of facts , and reduces some of the areas of uncertainty that formerly surrounded it . |
| 11 | Yeah but apparently apparently that were n't hi his Am that was his American car that nearly hit them but th Brian had sold that to a bloke down in down your mum 's road . |
| 12 | On the strength of this scanty victory ( 23,000 votes , i.e. 28 per cent of the total number cast ) this largely unknown candidate was now treated by the media as ‘ the front runner ’ and ‘ the man to beat ’ , allowing him to gather the momentum that finally brought him the Democratic nomination . |
| 13 | Benedict 's pulse began to beat in his throat , and he fought vainly against that familiar rush of heat to his blood that invariably engulfed him at the sight of her . |
| 14 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 15 | In the middle layer is greenish gabbro , molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust . |
| 16 | He continued as if she had n't spoken , his voice dropping to a level of intimacy that suddenly made it feel as though they were alone , not being listened to by thousands of people . |
| 17 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
| 18 | He was racked by coughs that almost tore him apart . |
| 19 | Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest . |
| 20 | She could sense a sudden , incomprehensible anger in the man opposite that totally threw her . |
| 21 | Where are the 365 collecting boxes for last year 's Ian Botham Walk for Leukaemia that never made it back to Corporate Communications ? |
| 22 | And of course that also meant she could n't possibly spare the time to do her usual singing spot in the club . |
| 23 | The argument sometimes takes the form of a diagnosis — that much of the perplexity of our modern age is due to the severance of science from the religious values that once shaped it . |
| 24 | She let her attention return to the vista that almost surrounded them , since the glass of the cockpit extended right under her feet . |
| 25 | And this is another fallacy that really struck me when I saw this ; you imagine Victorian stitchery to be uniformly fine and perfect , twenty stitches to the inch and that sort of thing . |
| 26 | It was a kind of expiation , the only kind that really hurt him . |
| 27 | Fortunately , there was a small cell of opinion within the Air Ministry that passionately believed they knew the reason for the failure and , more importantly , felt that they also knew the answer . |
| 28 | But these features were obviously not the ‘ causes ’ of crime , they were merely signs that supposedly enabled us to spot criminals . |
| 29 | Nor would there be any copying of Western market and property forms , with the unemployment and inequality that inevitably accompanied them . |
| 30 | Henry David Thoreau 's ‘ The Dispersion of Seeds ’ , now published as ‘ Faith in a Seed ’ ( Island Press , 284 pages , $19.95 ) , was written in 1860 after many tramps through the Concord woods , where Thoreau caught the cold that eventually killed him . |