Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other countries apparently more successful than us , never seem to mind change , the British do for fear that it diminishes their lot in life . |
| 2 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 3 | It is to the elaboration of rules that we direct our attention in the next chapter . |
| 4 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 5 | Because it is subject to the conditions of carriage that we accept their business and therefore we have to provide them with written information . |
| 6 | Lt John Garrett , commanding officer of the Walton on the Naze Sea Cadet unit , said : ‘ The yacht Rebel has always provided an excellent training opportunity for Walton cadets and we too share the sadness and sense of loss that we know our friends and colleagues will be feeling . ’ |
| 7 | Another woman who had already had her baby was in such fits of laughter that she split her stitches . |
| 8 | The feel of his warm flesh under her finger gave her such an odd surge of panic that she retracted her hand as if she 'd been burnt . |
| 9 | The innermost southern shore of the peninsula had been the chosen land of Pythagoras , your namesake , perhaps your ancestor , the apostle of eternal return : it was in the market square at Crotone on the Gulf of Taranto south of Riba that he exposed his thigh and showed that it was golden , and so was honoured by the inhabitants as a special favourite of the gods , quasi-divine himself . |
| 10 | It was with a sense of relief that he made his way alone into the bar and ordered a glass of champagne . |
| 11 | It seemed such a bizarre exchange after two decades of silence that he repeated her name — ‘ Sue ? ’ — as if it might turn out not to be her after all . |
| 12 | cos there 's a little coffee table sort of thing that I put my script on |
| 13 | It is therefore not only with a sense of excitement that I approach my new responsibilities , but also with a keen awareness of the importance of IT to industry , to the service sector , to research and to the strength and wellbeing of the UK as a whole . |
| 14 | So , when Saturday dawned , it was with a feeling of release that she threw her wetsuit into the car and drove to the sailing club . |
| 15 | He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience . |
| 16 | Celtic farmed him out to Blantyre Celtic to toughen him up and it was in the killing fields of Blantyre that he won his first honour , a Scottish Junior cap . |
| 17 | Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number . |
| 18 | It is with sadness that I begin my statement this year by referring to the loss of an inspirational founder member of RIBA Companies Ltd . |
| 19 | In the latter case Z buys from X through X 's agent Y ; it is with X that he made his contract and if things go wrong , he can look to his seller , X , for a remedy . |
| 20 | She felt very conscious of his presence , and it was with relief that she completed her task and sat back in the chair . |
| 21 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 22 | He still treated Edward coolly , stating with conviction that he had his orders direct from London and saw no need to go over them in detail , and no possibility that he would modify them on the say-so of a junior officer he did not know . |
| 23 | In the case of the Emperor Nero , we can tell from coins that he abandoned his youthful hairstyle for the more mature one ‘ arranged in steps ’ ( as Suetonius calls it ) in AD 63 ( fig. 13 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 25 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 26 | It was last year in Denmark that she reached her lowest ebb . |
| 27 | It was also in May that I started my new programme of intensive stretching exercises and aerobics . |
| 28 | At the outbreak of war Messiaen joined the army and it was whilst a prisoner in Silesia that he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps which combines the harmonic and rhythmic complexity with refinement of sound that characterizes his later works , notably the epic Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus for solo piano . |
| 29 | It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’ |
| 30 | It was while Murdock was living in Cornwall that he did his experiments with the model locomotive and his work on gas lighting . |