Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
| 32 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 33 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 34 | Demons of unbelief , demons responsible for masturbation , demons responsible for unhappiness and depression , demons that control our cities — all these and many more seem to have popped up with alarming regularity in recent years . |
| 35 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 36 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 37 | 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 ’ . ) |
| 38 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 39 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | For organizations that want their employees to give of their best the conclusion must be that ‘ we can not afford not to have an effective communication policy ’ . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | All the organizations that worked there were offered alternative accommodation , which they were all sensible enough to accept . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Only the bigger parties are sure to receive the bonuses that provide them with over-representation . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 49 | Once you are up and going , you should select your course out through the waves aiming to jump on only one or two waves that take your fancy . |
| 50 | Hastings Sea Life Centre takes you on a journey beneath the crashing waves that surround our coastline to discover a whole new world … |
| 51 | It was n't easy to tell , from the filthy and shapeless rags that covered their filthy and shapeless bodies , but I guessed that there was a man and a woman and some smaller ones that were children . |
| 52 | Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid . |
| 53 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 54 | His dilated pupils told one story , the honesty of the eyes that enclosed them another . |
| 55 | Julius stood in the doorway , and there was a bright light in his eyes that made her feel very alarmed . |
| 56 | He smiled suddenly , something in his eyes that made her instantly wary , but when she tried to remove her hand from his arm he covered her fingers with his own and held them there . |
| 57 | Blue eyes that made her heart give an alarming little lurch . |
| 58 | Under a massive front-page headline , HUNT FOR DRACULA FIEND ( Star ) , the report indicated that a 13-year-old was able to tell detectives that her attacker ‘ had short dark hair streaked with grey and deep-set eyes that made him ‘ look a bit like Dracula ’ ' . |
| 59 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 60 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |