Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me that puts us in a difficult position when trying Germans , whose crime was obeying their superiors ’ orders , whatever our horror at what those orders led to . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was me that set her on fire ! ’ |
| 3 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 4 | And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation . |
| 5 | It was you that taught me to be a Darwinist , a decent gradualist . |
| 6 | I saved you that put it on his bike . |
| 7 | ‘ It was thinking I 'd lost you that brought me to my senses . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 9 | It 's you that told me about him was n't it ? |
| 10 | It 's got ta be you that puts them on you . |
| 11 | There was a core of hardness to him that prevented him from ever responding to her . |
| 12 | There seemed to be a blankness in her that prevented her from going any further ; a momentary spark that said , But wait … and then said nothing more . |
| 13 | She could feel her own heart pounding against her ribs and there was a passionate urgency inside her that robbed her of all thought . |
| 14 | Well I suppose what 's but you see I do n't know whether she 's doing it that must be her that done it in that corner , cos he ai n't been in here ! |
| 15 | Since Paul 's departure — she grimaced at the memory — Dinah had been able to do as she liked with it , and she liked to have objects about her that reminded her of herself . |
| 16 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 17 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 18 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |
| 19 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 20 | Breeding and sex in general were a part of the natural order of things to the people of the old farming community ; and this is another aspect of it that reminds us of its ancient roots . |
| 21 | So what was it that pushed them into a far more extreme position towards Mary than that of 1558 ? |
| 22 | It is a magic one , though only modestly so : ‘ He that blows it at need shall set fear in the hearts of his enemies and joy in the hearts of his friends , and they shall hear him and come to him . ’ |