Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If watching plays is so painful for David that he wishes he were somewhere else , then I for one would be glad to take his place . |
| 2 | It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 5 | ‘ 'T WAS on the Isle of Capreee that I found her … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ T'was on the isle of Capri that I met her … ’ |
| 7 | While with Hofmann he had so successfully completed an investigation for Allsopps & Sons of Burton-on-Trent that they offered him an appointment as chemist at the brewery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 10 | It was a photograph of a portrait by Van Dyck — the portrait of a boy about fifteen — a young Prince Ruprecht von der Pfaltz of Bavaria and he was so like Lionel that it brought one 's heart into one 's mouth . |
| 11 | that , that was to do , behind Algate that you said you were doing |
| 12 | And by that I was looking at er things like discussing with Alan that I felt we were un under , had , had less management time than we should . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | It was in Lucerne that you conducted what were by all accounts electrifying performances of the Honegger Symphonie liturgique , which you later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon . |
| 15 | As the recession deepened [ see below ] , the Hawke government began 1991 some 18 percentage points behind the opposition in opinion polls , raising questions concerning Hawke 's future as leader , particularly as Keating had let it be known at a National Press Club dinner in December that he believed he would make a better Prime Minister than Hawke . |
| 16 | It was last year in Denmark that she reached her lowest ebb . |
| 17 | It was in May that I met her , on a return visit to Cley . |
| 18 | It was also in May that I started my new programme of intensive stretching exercises and aerobics . |
| 19 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 20 | 1657 ) had settled ; and it was in Cambridge that he established himself , perhaps succeeding to Thomas Grumbold 's business . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | It was while Murdock was living in Cornwall that he did his experiments with the model locomotive and his work on gas lighting . |
| 24 | That may not bother him because it was in Christchurch that he had his Ireland tour brought to a premature end last year by a punch from Canterbury 's Andy Earl which broke his jaw . |
| 25 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 26 | It was also while Murdock was living in Redruth that he started his experiments with coal gas . |
| 27 | None the less , it was in London that he made his will on 8 April 1416 , characteristically dedicated to his kin , staff , and domestic servants . |
| 28 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 29 | So do French politicians : ‘ it is through Europe that we affirm our presence in space and across the world ’ , declared President Mitterrand at the Le Bourget aerospace show in June 1987 . |
| 30 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |