Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] that [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something about this man that set her pulses racing . |
| 2 | Their pupils were covered with red mud from slips and falls , but the teachers were unmarked except for ochre spatters that streaked their mailed tunics |
| 3 | Luke shook his head , his mouth curled into the kind of annoying smile that made her fingers itch to slap it away . |
| 4 | She turned on Walter Ash and reviled him for allowing her to hope , and indeed , despite the final outcome , it was his dangerous encouragement of this scheme that prefaced her final disillusion with him . |
| 5 | Airhead , especially , put on an impressive live showing of reliable pop that belied their rather ordinary singles . |
| 6 | During the rest hours and at night , he had turned his face to the wall and cried over their shared youth and all the bonds of sun and blowing grass and long evenings full of the sound of tumbling rooks that tied their lives together . |
| 7 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 8 | But it would be wrong to suppose that the final community in such a sequence had some kind of privileged status that guaranteed its stability . |
| 9 | He was in black — a thick high-necked sweater and , she noticed when he got up and came round the side of the desk , a pair of black corduroys that moulded his thighs as if tailored specially for him , as indeed they probably had been . |
| 10 | You must always think of him in those terms , to get the flavour of Calvinistic humbug that ruled his life , and therefore everyone around him . ’ |
| 11 | His tongue teased at her lips until she opened them helplessly , allowing him to deepen the kiss , his tongue stroking hers in an act of burning sexuality that had her sagging against him . |
| 12 | When at last your gum boots got you , bent double , to the other end you could straighten up to see , again framed in foliage , the mature dream gardens of well-off homeowners , their sumptuous spreads a far cry from the fresh plots of intractable clay that fronted our council houses . |
| 13 | Nor are any reservations about Hawking 's work itself : on this score , Soul is more incisive than Errol Morris ' movie , in which the director has substituted a somewhat bemused deference for the confident spirit of critical inquiry that animated its forerunner , The Thin Blue Line . |
| 14 | As he moved towards the two men , Harry savoured the moments of secret observation that preceded their awareness of his presence . |
| 15 | It was his sense of history , part romantic , part Christian , and his sense of American society that gave his films their dramatic and visual power . |
| 16 | Freya 's story is unusual in some ways , in that unlike Alison Freya started off , as she says , quite happy with her body ; it was the reaction of other people that made her uncertain . |
| 17 | She had a heavily lined face , a prominent , almost hawk-like nose , but she had kindly eyes and every so often she would display a vein of sharp humour that suggested her family had to keep their shoes clean when they approached her little parlour . |
| 18 | A charge of magic bigger than he had ever seen was building up ; when he moved , in painful slow motion , his limbs left trails of golden sparks that traced their shape in the air . |
| 19 | There was something about this huge expanse of rugged land that changed his sense of time . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's I who have been a fool — for five intolerable , hideously long years , ’ he added softly , gently wiping the tears from her eyes before covering her upturned face with butterfly-light kisses that made her heart sing for joy . |
| 21 | She wore glasses with brown-winged frames that suited her pointed face and enhanced the impression she gave of being about to become airborne . |
| 22 | The two Chelonians he had seen earlier were strapped into padded harnesses that suspended their front set of limbs conveniently over the main instrument panel . |
| 23 | Kate 's shoulders were heaving under great sobs that racked her body . |
| 24 | He had played his part so well throughout the day , holding her hand as they had strolled along the beach , looking into her eyes in that way that made her bones melt . |
| 25 | Question time The BBC is still under attack from old Thatcherism that sapped its morale and split its audiences . |
| 26 | During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy . |
| 27 | I am firmly convinced that it was Harold Wilson 's poor judgement in relation to certain advisers that damaged his record as Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Both the police and transport were subject to special arrangements that differentiated their administration and policy control from the general procedures of local government . |
| 29 | But his anti-Semitism , although a powerful obsession , was one among many obsessions that governed his life . |
| 30 | Covering his own face with his hands , he was overtaken by silent sobs that made his shoulders shake . |