Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [vb past] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Glovers , cautiously , observed their hosts ; both wore suits that spoke of much expense , the senior and thinner with a striped shirt , the other with a lilac shirt and pink silk tie . |
| 2 | It was a question that seemed of crucial importance . |
| 3 | A third source derived from Scandinavia where in 1935 F. Hjulstrøm published the results of field and laboratory investigations related to the River Fyris and identified relationships between stream velocity , particle size and the processes of erosion , transport and deposition that became of fundamental significance in sedimentology as well as in studies of geomorphologic processes . |
| 4 | The tentacles the skin — with its patchiness that spoke of increasing age — were clear giveaway . |
| 5 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 6 | Within the excised matter were the small particles that remained of eight inches of lower spine , which had come straight through the body and the ventral wall to lodge in the front of the jeans . |
| 7 | Letter that told of troubled times |