Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 2 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 3 | The Ford ‘ Edsel ’ , unveiled as the car that had everything in the way of advanced engineering , flopped like a dead duck with the public which presumably was little interested in engineering . |
| 4 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 5 | Tony takes the hint and decides not to wax equally lyrical about the Svalbard storm that kept everyone in the tent for seventy-two hours , unable to go out for anything . |
| 6 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 7 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 8 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 9 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 10 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 11 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 12 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 13 | Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot |
| 14 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |
| 15 | Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind . |
| 16 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 17 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 18 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 19 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 20 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 21 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 22 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 23 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
| 24 | Not only has Mellor lost the cherished Cabinet post that thrust him to the forefront of British politics , but he has also waved goodbye to the Heritage Secretary 's salary of £63,047 . |
| 25 | The war drums throbbed , a muffled , far-carrying , never-ceasing sound that thrilled me to the core ; the five-foot trumpets brayed . |
| 26 | Heat flared along her veins , ripple after ripple of heady sensation that shook her to the very depths . |
| 27 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 28 | They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions . |
| 29 | I thought , a laugh being pretty well the only dealing with the truth that offered itself at the moment , and so nothing to run down . |
| 30 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |