Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the total chaos that followed their introduction there was a conspicuous lack of corpses . |
| 2 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 3 | And each cough that forced its way past his throat brought with it more of the bright frothy blood , which dribbled from the corners of his mouth faster than his red-soaked handkerchief could mop it up . |
| 4 | My grandmother is a keen birdwatcher and she 'd already introduced me to a lot of the different birds that visited her bird-table , telling me what they ate and showing me their nests and explaining how they were made and what they were made of . |
| 5 | But now suddenly he came out with it violently , almost in the manner of Hotspur himself over-riding some constraint that tied his tongue : |
| 6 | American banks will need years to recover from the now souring loans to property developers and leveraged buy-outs that followed their third-world lending . |
| 7 | Ironically , it was Artemesia 's horrendous experience that gave her talent focus , strength and direction — hence her paintings of heroic women and paintings that capture the disturbing sense of sexual threat and graphic display of woman 's vengence — voicing Artemesia Gentileschi 's own anger and rage . ’ |
| 8 | Inside , her organs twined about each other unnaturally , her bones softened and grew functionless knobs that breached her skin . |
| 9 | I powered up gradually , settling into an easy , long-paced stride that got my lungs working properly and readied my legs . |
| 10 | And they got their wish — one goal against Sweden in a 2-1 defeat that ended their Championship . |
| 11 | Neither was she aware of the mumbled words that passed her lips as the hours went by , nor of the method he used to warm her when she started to shiver again . |
| 12 | old tunes that soothed my baby sister |
| 13 | They 're people whose lives have been shattered by the incest or other sexual abuse that engulfed their childhood and darkened their lives thereafter . |
| 14 | Walking beside her now , he prayed she would not notice the peculiar tic that jerked his face into a spasm of nervous twitches and always made her so terribly angry . |
| 15 | For him , the provinces made sense not as descriptive units but as products of a historical process that explained their existence in purely natural terms . |
| 16 | Airhead , especially , put on an impressive live showing of reliable pop that belied their rather ordinary singles . |
| 17 | And to eat there — how she longed to , to drop the few years that made her different from Cad , to lose the ripeness and rotundities that would always make her different from Cati , who was , really , almost boy-like with her stringbean limbs , yet not quite boyish either , angelic rather ; she was not afflicted with the need Rosa felt , the gap opening inside her , where a longing for something other than what lay within her sights sat in occupation , banging her drum and marking out a new rhythm and new steps for Rosa 's spinning wants , calling down the corridors of Rosa 's body to her innermost inguinal life , till her blood rang to the beat . |
| 18 | Because of the show 's alternation between historical tales and science fiction adventures , it happened that Barry Newbery wound up doing most of the stories in Earth 's past , while Raymond Cusick got the bulk of the sf material — an on-going process that tested his imagination to the limits . |
| 19 | That was the only light moment that came my way on that trek . |
| 20 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 21 | Question time The BBC is still under attack from old Thatcherism that sapped its morale and split its audiences . |
| 22 | Sarah Fleming answered the few questions that came her way with concise intelligence . |
| 23 | Now what 's the question you can ask this hairdresser that got his own bus , I know I 'm using a , a an extreme |
| 24 | He smiled , a slow , charming smile that made her blood turn to water . |
| 25 | Overall the closer ties between European partners have been welcomed by a French salesforce that lost its manufacturing base at Calais . |
| 26 | In a week or so weather and growth would have sealed up again all the raw edges that betrayed its use . |
| 27 | There he halted , staring down into the flames , but his stillness had a taut , barely restrained quality that kept her heart beating much too fast , and though he seemed totally absorbed in the glowing fire Isabel sensed he was aware of her every movement . |
| 28 | Lou had allowed her coal-black hair to grow into a softer , more feminine style that flattered her small features . |
| 29 | There was something about this man that set her pulses racing . |
| 30 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |