Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 2 | Dressed in a plaid shirt and faded jeans that clung lovingly to his muscular thighs , he was leaning against the door-jamb with his usual easy animal grace , and she was forced to swallow hard against a rush of desire that totally unnerved her . |
| 3 | He has visited Vietnam several times to search for missing American soldiers , a venture that plays well in his district which is home to a lot of ex-servicemen . |
| 4 | But then she realized that laid out before her was a flat surface . |
| 5 | In his address opening the Council he expressed it by saying that the Council would be ‘ pastoral ’ rather than dogmatic , and talking about aggiornamento and rinnovimento — terms that harked back to his youth when both were slightly suspect . |
| 6 | It was the start of a series of events that led finally to his fast exit from America , never to return , and many close to him believe to this day he was eventually ostracized by powerful Hollywood money for bringing the film industry into such disrepute . |
| 7 | One of the big problems the widower does have is that he does not feel so free to express his grief to others by weeping when he talks of his wife , their life together and the events that led up to her death . |
| 8 | And she wondered , as she headed for the hallway and the staircase that led up to her bedroom on the first floor , why the fact that that had not happened troubled her so . |
| 9 | Horace Walpole describes the effect of walking through the grotto into the garden in language that both recalls Eloisa to Abelard and anticipates descriptions in the Gothic novel : ‘ The passing through the gloom from the grotto to opening day ; the retiring and again assembling shades ; the dusky groves , the larger lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that led up to his mother 's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement . ’ |
| 10 | Bundle one er starts in er , in fact in nineteen eighty three , nineteen eighty four with documents which deal with the er first plaintiff previous employment and his general financial situation before then turning to nineteen eighty five and to the events that led up to his purchase of the business around which this litigation centres , in September of nineteen eighty five and the documents in that first one will go up to mid October in nineteen eighty five . |
| 11 | The smack has suppressed the wetting behaviour but has done so by suppressing one of the antecedents that led up to it , namely , an approach by Katy to her father . |
| 12 | And some of the things that led up to it erm , yo you had like a form of spring cleaning yo you know |
| 13 | It simply means that that particular argument that led up to it is no argument at all . |
| 14 | You were with her in the days and weeks that led up to it . |
| 15 | This experience shaped the political ambition that led ultimately to his coup of 23 July 1952 . |
| 16 | There is n't a day that goes past without my missing him . |
| 17 | If the chick is going to do this to remember everything that goes on during its lifetime , how will it find enough room in its little brain for all that synaptic machinery ? |
| 18 | What process is it that goes on in our brains that enables us to recall people and past events ? |
| 19 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 20 | Both universalise prematurely , hardening and expanding one aspect of the moral situation to cover ground that goes far beyond its relevance . |
| 21 | There 's a little row that goes down beside it round the back , I never knew there was . |
| 22 | When you have an operation these days that 's lasting anything more than just er a couple of minutes or so , they will insert down your windpipe an endotracheal airway , which is a tube that goes down into your windpipe to seal into the windpipe , so if you vomit , for example , no vomit can down round that tube . |
| 23 | Well , it 's because the Poll Tax is designed and the whole load of legislation that goes along with it , to increase the burden of erm payment on local Poll Tax payers . |
| 24 | The big Kulak that goes everywhere with her looked at her , then at me , then gives me a bit o' paper . ’ |
| 25 | For example , the formal machinery of collective bargaining , and the ‘ culture ’ of industrial relations that builds up around it , acts as a filter through which external pressures for change must pass . |
| 26 | ‘ Craig has to be remote because of all the stuff that flies around about him and Rachel . ’ |
| 27 | Halley 's comet which is er a big lump of rock that flies around in its own orbit . |
| 28 | The particles go off into baby universes that branch off from our universe . |
| 29 | It was my wee , my wee granddaughter that got through to him . |
| 30 | I went into the job feeling confident enough , but the wind that got up for our first day soon knocked that out of me . |