Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [that] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE past women rarely took jobs that involved getting their hands dirty , though in the war they kept the wheels of industry turning as their men went off to fight . |
| 2 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 3 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 4 | She wanted to snatch them up and hide them away from the coolly assessing scrutiny that seemed to lay her bare . |
| 5 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 6 | Beckmann was a latecomer to modernism ; it was not until after the First World War that he turned noticeably to the sharply outlined Expressionism that came to typify his work . |
| 7 | It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat . |