Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge . |
| 2 | And it was in this room , quietly and simply , that Morse told her of the death of Theodore Kemp , considering , in his own strange fashion , that it was perhaps not an inappropriate time for her to know . |
| 3 | He dreamt that Lucie threw him from the parapet of a bridge into deep water , with a stone statue of Garvey tied round his neck . |
| 4 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 5 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 6 | Her cousin Liz had always said that Ross reminded her of a ferocious , hungry lion gliding smoothly through the tall grass of life , looking for his supper ! |
| 7 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
| 8 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
| 9 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 10 | Worse , although Thornton knew that Hayling saw himself as a potential chief executive , he demanded that the business side of the paper be immediately put under the direction of ‘ an upfront businessman with a solid track record ’ . |
| 11 | Los Angeles police are investigating statements by a 13-year-old boy that Jackson abused him during a four-month relationship . |
| 12 | It may have been largely thanks to Lewis that Williams became something of a cult figure , idolized by pious lady dons , aspirant mystics and others . |
| 13 | So obviously you just write down that Rita did it on the 10th . |
| 14 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 15 | The bland Norwegian dropped it in so casually that Carrington made something of an idiot of himself . |
| 16 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 17 | It was not until autumn that Jennifer found herself in the city again . |
| 18 | The darkness was so complete that Pliny compared it with a sealed room in which the lamp had been put out . |
| 19 | ‘ Estella ’ means a star , showing us that Pip sees her as a light in a dim world . |
| 20 | " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine . |
| 21 | He said he knew that " the United States would not insist that Iran do everything in an absolutely legal way . " |
| 22 | Land lies derelict , land is poorly farmed , and one rather has the feeling that Norton-Taylor regards it as a sin to own land at all . |
| 23 | When the news was broken to Martha that Lydia wanted her for a bridesmaid , she was excited . |
| 24 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 25 | Ho must have run right into them , for he could see that Steve had him in a headlock and was dragging his kicking , struggling figure along the deserted street while Ray Shepherd followed , laughing . |
| 26 | One can not say , for example , that Oftel decided something by a narrow vote' or that personnel changes in an individual agency will change the approach . ’ |
| 27 | The two metal coffee jugs were so hot that Cormack dropped them with a yelp . |
| 28 | The trouble was that Baldwin did it by the methods he had forsworn and that his words and his style of appeal had become alienated front his actions . |
| 29 | I read somewhere that Charlton chased him round the goal for this , is that true ? ? |
| 30 | This caused such a stir that Harrison threw himself into the cause of medical reform . |