Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 61 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 62 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 63 | Fran did n't want to look at him , did n't want to turn her head and see the anger in those dark eyes , but there was no escaping the powerful force that drew her . |
| 64 | Just remember that the invisible spiritual force that makes them work is evil and harmful , so leave them all well alone . |
| 65 | Well there must be another force that makes them see them things must n't there ? |
| 66 | A force that provides us with food and warmth and light … and upon which we 've become very dependent , maybe to our cost . |
| 67 | Resolving medical problems , admonishing the transgressors of rules , arbitrating disputes , cracking jokes with a deadpan expression on his face , Guruji is clearly the hub of this community and the force that holds it together . |
| 68 | If you are restrained from doing something , then there is often some force that prevents you . |
| 69 | a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . ) |
| 70 | It is because no institution or individual is proof against the third essential ingredient that makes us what we are — the Zeitgeist , the spirit of the times . |
| 71 | The definition of feedback that concerns you as Chairman or Hon. |
| 72 | Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes . |
| 73 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 74 | She withdrew , and Claudia opened the door , steeling herself to greet Roman without a trace of the emotion that made her want to run out of the flat , away from the two people she loved most and who were causing her so much pain that she wanted to die . |
| 75 | Claudia wished she could stop shaking ; the touch of his hard body against hers had started up a whirlpool of emotion that left her wanting to run until she had put miles between them . |
| 76 | But er all of the main organizations that have you know World Wide and Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth and so on and Age Concern . |
| 77 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 78 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 79 | The throw took her by surprise , was sharp and strong , and went a little wide , so that it was only the experience of three younger brothers that gave her quick enough reflexes to shoot an arm out sideways to take the catch . |
| 80 | Only the bigger parties are sure to receive the bonuses that provide them with over-representation . |
| 81 | The fourth series ( starting on Wednesday , BBC1 , 4.35pm ) covers plenty of ground quizzing people about relationships , models about their looks and one teenager with an obsession that led him to wash his hands until they bled . |
| 82 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 83 | Gay sex does n't deserve the obsession that surrounds it . |
| 84 | The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's . |
| 85 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 86 | But it was your axe that hit me , borne down by his sword . |
| 87 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 88 | Often we are baffled , because having found love it then eludes us ; there is no permanence , only loss that leaves us wanting . |
| 89 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 90 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |