Example sentences of "[noun] that [noun] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From her came such a whiff of defeat that Alice had to force herself to stand up to it . |
| 2 | In 1857 , however , the state had started encouraging the creation of private joint-stock companies for the construction of railways , with the result that investors had taken their money out of state banks and put it into railway-building . |
| 3 | It was after being cast adrift in a longboat by the mutinous crew of Bounty that Bligh managed to make his monumental open-boat voyage with a handful of faithfuls to safety , and ultimately revenge , on the Indonesian island of Timor . |
| 4 | When the man first tempted her and then rejected her , she was ‘ all shamed and confused in herself ’ , was afflicted with horrible temptations to lechery and despair , and ‘ the devil put into her mind that God had forsaken her ’ . |
| 5 | It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service . |
| 6 | She straightened the skirt that Thérèse had lent her , dusted it with both hands , then descended the stairs . |
| 7 | He breasted the hill , riding straight for her , coming so close on the great horse that Ruth had to steel herself not to move from the spot . |
| 8 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 9 | Only two of the sixteen believers in the Bible accounts agreed that spirits could visit us during dreams although it is crucial to the sense of these accounts that God did make Himself known to individuals during dreams , and actually visited them in their dreams . |
| 10 | The hair that God had left him was sparse , dry and vertical , as if he brushed it forward every morning . |
| 11 | Ronni looked at Guido now from beneath her lashes , taking in the strong , mahogany-dark profile and remembering the story that Jeff had told her . |
| 12 | After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night . |
| 13 | For once , his mind was not on royalty and a possible peerage , not on Dickens , not on his incipient gastritis , not even on the blow that Angelina had dealt him . |
| 14 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 15 | First , the pope asserted that it was upon evidence presented by Offa that Hadrian had based his judgement , Offa testifying that it was the unanimous wish of all that a pallium be sent to the bishop of Lichfield . |
| 16 | He said in a letter to The Times that ministers had to leave it up to the court whether or not the documents should be disclosed . |
| 17 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 18 | He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket . |
| 19 | With one last cry she held him impossibly tight , her nails scoring his back , and knew even in her state of mindlessness that Leo had timed himself to her , that even in the grip of his own needs he had thought of her . |
| 20 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 21 | I needed a new winter coat , and did not have the skill that Wendy had to make one out of a blanket . |
| 22 | Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ? |
| 23 | But she also knew that if Jake and Janice could offer the happy home that Jake had promised she would give up her own claim in an instant . |
| 24 | His evidence was also remarkable for his insistence that Kesselring had exaggerated his own importance as Officer Commanding Troops in Italy , and was therefore not in fact responsible for the atrocities of which he stood accused . |
| 25 | All the terrors that Tony had taught her came crowding back . |
| 26 | At the centre of these events was the announcement that Sellafield wanted to expand its activities . |
| 27 | The sportswear firm 's announcement that BTF had sold its 78 per cent stake in Adidas International Holding — which holds 95 per cent of Adidas — came as no surprise . |
| 28 | He had only recently joined QP and considered it important that he should serve the Church and enjoy worshipping the Lord in the place that God had put him . |
| 29 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 30 | 344 for 1 meant a nine-wicket victory in a match that England had thought they might win . |