Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] that [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But tonight there had been no time to get the cheese or sardines or cold ham that made his evening meal ; Sean never liked to cook in his bedsit above the premises of Hogan 's lest the smell of food linger and be deemed offensive . |
| 2 | It was Lear 's example that provided the impetus for the Goulds ' first publication , and it was Lear who later transformed Gould 's static and unimaginative style into the confident and innovative work that characterised his second and all subsequent publications . |
| 3 | And each cough that forced its way past his throat brought with it more of the bright frothy blood , which dribbled from the corners of his mouth faster than his red-soaked handkerchief could mop it up . |
| 4 | American banks will need years to recover from the now souring loans to property developers and leveraged buy-outs that followed their third-world lending . |
| 5 | It was n't easy to tell , from the filthy and shapeless rags that covered their filthy and shapeless bodies , but I guessed that there was a man and a woman and some smaller ones that were children . |
| 6 | Lazily , she stretched and smiled , letting her somnolent gaze drift over the procession of reeds and gnarled trees that dipped their branches low into the water . |
| 7 | The man was slight , with stooped shoulders , a pink face and thick spectacles that magnified his eyes , making the sockets look like deep pits in his skull . |
| 8 | The ‘ great divide ’ has been re-established , by the appeal to literacy , apparently on a ‘ scientific ’ basis and apparently without the offensive appeals to inherent cultural and intellectual superiority that discredited its early phases . |
| 9 | He let his gaze rest upon the awed and silent faces that fringed his passage , but without seeing them . |
| 10 | It was not so much spiritual angst as geographical angst that cramped my teens . |