Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 2 | This also served to dye the nasty brown hairs that kept growing from the roots underneath . |
| 3 | But later on , when the hairs that began sprouting in the heat of the bandage become fully grown and replace the old hairs , a startling white patch will appear . |
| 4 | He would receive two-dimensional light signals that had travelled within the surface and he would not be directly aware of any curvature . |
| 5 | But more compelling were her dark expressive eyes , eyes that had widened with shock on seeing Tyler there , eyes that might have spoken to him of anger but instead had betrayed something much deeper , and far more dangerous . |
| 6 | Because there was something in his eyes that had beckoned to her ? |
| 7 | Jake 's tone was lethal as he looked down at her with eyes that had turned to blue ice . |
| 8 | He passed some coins over without counting , staring stupidly at the eyes that looked hurt with expected rejection , as if the man knew what would be said to put him off . |
| 9 | She was nameless ; they called her Fox , for her sandy hair and brows , for the sharply blue eyes that seemed to rake through you and see nothing of interest . |
| 10 | The concentration calmed her , soothed the worries that had surfaced on the drive from Belfast to the border . |
| 11 | These sensible recommendations were also designed to harmonize relationships between institutions and their local authorities , in that the granting to institutions of considerably more discretion in the control and allocation of resources would help to avoid the kind of disputes that had erupted between them and the local authorities in the past . |
| 12 | Die-hard conservatism represented a continuation of the fears and anxieties that had surfaced in those most respectable publications , The Times and the Morning Post , with their debates over the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Cause of World Unrest , at the end of the war . |
| 13 | To this day they have unresolved arguments about the repatriation of prisoners-of-war , about the ownership of the Iraqi fighters that flew to shelter in Iran after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , and about the hostile groups each country harbours on its territory . |
| 14 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 15 | Visiting local bookshops at random , I came across more and more books that had come from libraries . |
| 16 | To the south lay the workers ' quarters ; long , low huts that seemed embedded in the earth . |
| 17 | These had been the last words that had passed between them . |
| 18 | Words that went blowing in the wind |
| 19 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 20 | Now , in Dodds v Walker [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 609 , the House of Lords , no less , decided that in calculating the period of a month or a specified number of months that had elapsed after the occurrence of a specified event such as the giving of a notice or suchlike , the general rule was that the period ended on the corresponding date in the appropriate subsequent month , irrespective of whether some months were longer than others . |
| 21 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 22 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 23 | The influences that had pressed on her adolescent consciousness began to come together that summer in the French capital with her arts school boyfriend , Bernie from Bermondsey . |
| 24 | A Hampshire hotel hit on a clever country house compromise with gentle piano recordings that appeared to come from a live performer in the next room — creating a delightful backdrop to afternoon tea . |
| 25 | These were deposited in shallow marine barrier/lagoon complexes that became established at the edge of the basin on top of the marginal platform of the Z1 Anhydrite . |
| 26 | The archaeologists camped uncomfortably inside them for a while , then moved out into the townships that had mushroomed around the site . |
| 27 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 28 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 29 | Forty years on , the Mail and Express remained , with the new Today , but found themselves squeezed between sectors that had doubled in size . |
| 30 | Again she looked about her , this time with eyes that moved , surprised , between the broken shapes that lay littered about the room . |