Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is it about Jonah 's escapade that transfixes us ? |
| 2 | It was not the ever-present guard or the commandant 's threats that made them work so devotedly . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was something in the dowager-duchess 's voice that caused it , but Joan to her own dismay burst into tears . |
| 4 | But it is lang 's eclecticism that defines her career , and this is likewise the hallmark of many new country performers . |
| 5 | The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers ' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers . |
| 6 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 7 | It was Darwin 's fortune that spared him from the drudgery which wore out his contemporaries , and allowed him to do his research without worrying about whether he would have bread and cheese . |
| 8 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
| 9 | The main external events in Nietzsche 's life that concern us here are easily summarized . |
| 10 | It was not just the Iraqis ' perfidy that did them down . |
| 11 | Children starving , children who who are orphans , children on the move , refugees erm people that have nothing , nothing at all and a lot of the money is spent in this country erm particularly in cities , very poor areas of the cities . |
| 12 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 13 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 14 | it 's , or , or my driver 's capability that worry me |
| 15 | For it was Ven 's voice that answered her ! |
| 16 | The jury chose to ignore Mr Justice Drake 's advice that to call someone a queer ‘ may not be defamatory ’ and that the matter was ‘ very debatable ’ . |
| 17 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |
| 18 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 19 | But there was something about Doyle 's voice that made it impossible to interrupt . |
| 20 | It 's Jon 's drums that drag me in initially — precise , soft-stick , cymbal-heavy , to-the-letter and oddly hypnotic . |
| 21 | The feature of Althusser 's view that repels his liberal critics is his neglect of what they take to be a central distinction between the essential and contingent properties of individuals . |
| 22 | The curvature and stress-energy tensors , and Einstein 's equation that links them , will be discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 23 | It was Mr Banzer 's wrath that made him go into exile in Argentina . |
| 24 | It was Cizek 's reputation that drew him to Vienna ; it was the spirit of this outstanding man that he brought to his life 's work in Yorkshire . |
| 25 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 26 | think of an addition to the other person 's idea that improves it and overcomes the snag you have identified . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 28 | And yet it 's not Yelverton 's poems that win your attention but his performance : he believes in rock'n'roll — Lord Byron style . |
| 29 | And the navigator replied in his normal Brummie voice : " Oh no , he is in the aircraft over there , " and the odd thing was that the flak left us and clobbered an aircraft near us , It was the dead-ringer of God 's voice that unnerved me , I put a stop to this impersonation of the Lord and , sadly . |
| 30 | In this area , there is a specialization of the tongue 's surface that has nothing to do with taste . |