Example sentences of "[indef pn] that [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 2 | She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far . |
| 3 | I destroyed everything that reminded me of her : photographs , mementoes . |
| 4 | ‘ Incidentally , when Inez went Matthew collected all her belongings together , everything that reminded him of her , and stored them in one of the attics ; nobody else was allowed to touch the stuff . |
| 5 | What he seemed to see was something else , something that wore her like a shell , and it was walking towards him . |
| 6 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 7 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 8 | The thought had barely come and gone , and I was in the act of reaching out to replace the whisky bottle , when a long burst of electric-blue light from the aperture showed me something that froze me in mid-reach . |
| 9 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 10 | Her appeal to all generations was now something that separated her from almost any other pop star of her generation . |
| 11 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 12 | The idea of town planning was something that presented itself as an answer to a problem or group of problems which had arisen in contemporary urban life ’ ( Ashworth , 1954 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not say why , precisely , but for hundreds , thousands — an infinite number of reasons — you fascinated me , and that fascination encouraged in me the desire to live , something that abandoned me on the death of my sister . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't think she could have come across something that put her in danger ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think Nicola could have got hold of something that put her in danger ? ’ |
| 16 | After all , the inspector himself admitted wondering whether Nicola had learnt or been given something that put her in danger . |
| 17 | I was the one that took him from her and it was n't a good scene . |
| 18 | One of the first things to happen after my arrival at Bourn was the phasing out of Stirling bombers , so that the one that followed me around the perimeter track must have been one of the last to operate from there . |
| 19 | Mr Reagan was showered by shards of glass , including at least one that struck him in the face , but was unhurt . |
| 20 | The resemblance could be particularly close if breeders were installing some trait that allowed the crop to thrive in a new habitat , or one that shielded it from parasites or diseases . |
| 21 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 22 | Best-selling single — Rivers of Babylon/ Brown Girl in the Ring , Boney M. This was the one that shamed you on holiday . |
| 23 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 24 | More likely , anything that reminded her of her friend 's death probably upset her . |