Example sentences of "that [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not an animal you 'd care to tangle with , not even for the sake of the high-k meat that clung to its bones , not while rats were smaller and had less impressive jaws and could , besides , be sold to the lower-Level kind for a bounty of six minims per head , not to mention what their meat and skin would fetch . |
| 2 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 3 | Those ladies slim and brave enough to wear the high fashion were ethereal in gauzy dresses that clung to their bodies as they moved . |
| 4 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 5 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 6 | It was made of a fine gossamer fabric that clung to her smooth , flawless skin . |
| 7 | She wanted to apply it to her newly grown hips and breasts , to pare off , with quick disgusted flicks of her wrist , the fat that clung to her . |
| 8 | She surveyed his long-limbed body with an attempt at cool detachment , her gaze flickering over the dark denims that moulded his strong thighs , and the jade sweater that clung to his hard male chest . |
| 9 | Now he wore only the bottom half of pyjamas , thin cotton ones that clung to him , revealing more than they concealed of his strong muscular body . |
| 10 | One , with curling chestnut hair , was five foot ten , and thin , and wore long-legged swimming shorts that clung to him like skin in jagged gold and emerald . |
| 11 | She had tangled brown hair , a small and lively face , a dress of dark red material that clung to her . |
| 12 | In the end , after much hesitation — all Agnese 's stuff looked so expensive ! — Ronni selected a blue silk jersey dress the colour of her eyes that clung to her in all the right places and looked sensational , and a pair of matching blue sandals that , miraculously , fitted . |
| 13 | Caroline concentrated on a spot on the wall while Fabbiano , kneeling on the floor before her , whisked a needle and thread through the hem of the scarlet silk dress that clung to her like a second skin . |
| 14 | To call the bit of silk that clung to her body a dress was ridiculous . |
| 15 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 16 | Francis of Assisi maintains an astonishingly high position of regard in the hearts of many Christians who would comfortably condemn Rose of Lima , despite the fact that as well as chatting to wolves and birds , his own asceticism , and that laid on his followers , was ferocious and absolute . |
| 17 | A major problem that arose at an early stage was the reconciliation of the local authority 's requirements for one car-parking space per flat with the DoE 's refusal to fund a scheme in which the entire ground floor would be used for parking . |
| 18 | I now look forward to resuming my career wholly without blame or blemish for any of the difficulties that arose at Magnet . ’ |
| 19 | An error that arose on the consolidation of the capital gains legislation into TCGA 1992 will be corrected in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 20 | Coupled with problems that arose with the apparatus — UA1 for example was beset by difficulties ranging from dirty air-lines to burst pipes — it was not until last November and December that the experiments were able to observe a large sample of proton-antiproton collisions . |
| 21 | This issue is of importance for two reasons : firstly , whose meaning is the analysis meant to elucidate ? ( a problem that arose with Lévi-Strauss ) ; secondly , what is the analyst doing ? |
| 22 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 23 | It might help designers if a history of mismatches that arose during trials and the actions taken to correct them , was kept ; indeed we feel that some of the particular cases do lead to useful generalization . |
| 24 | On all the imperial and foreign policy issues that arose over the succeeding years ( the Cold War , Germany , the Atlantic Alliance , Indochina , Korea , the European Defence Community ) , he insisted on defining a " party line " . |
| 25 | The earliest land plants , to be found in Silurian and Devonian rocks , had simple shoots that arose from a creeping ‘ axis ’ , which were little different in structure from the shoots themselves . |
| 26 | What really concerns him , however , is the lack of progress on the national strategy for waste disposal that arose from the Gradouge incident . |
| 27 | Behind the fountain of plumes that arose from Captain Astorre 's headgear was the shining head of Primaflora , its hair looped and plaited under the horns of a cap , and a cameo on a gold chain round her throat . |
| 28 | The eventual combination of colour , texture and tone seemed quite pleasing and I was particularly taken by the subtle effect that arose from having a different background colour beneath the corners and sides of the border . |
| 29 | As our inner-city work was mainly focused on very fine-grained differentiation , we have so far paid less attention to these more generalized markers in Belfast English , and in some cases we have not published the quantitative findings that arose from studying these . |
| 30 | The majority of the budget consisted of relatively uncontrollable expenditure ; uncontrollable in the sense of outlays for entitlement programmes , such as social security and unemployment benefits , and outlays that arose from previous electoral obligations . |