Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 2 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 3 | even though there was a bit of grey in it , it was the , really the brown that predominated it , I said it , it , the grey suite would n't go with it |
| 4 | It is rising so high that makes us afraid , he thought , lest we fall or are cast down . |
| 5 | It 's bein' poor and 'omeless that does it . |
| 6 | What is it about the British that makes them confuse service with servility |
| 7 | WHAT is it about we British that makes us pay millions of pounds to actors who have never heard a shot fired in anger , while we ignore the heroes whose deeds they are paid to portray ? |
| 8 | WHAT is it about we British that makes us pay millions of pounds to actors who have never heard a shot fired in anger , while we ignore the heroes whose deeds they are paid to portray ? |
| 9 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 10 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note that they come from the same stable that brought us the national insurance surcharge . |
| 12 | She said it was highly possible that had he received a blood transfusion his life might have been saved . |
| 13 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 14 | alright , fair enough , if , if the , if the deformity is mobile that means you can move it , you can actually do a lot of manipulation and physiotherapy and that can work very well . |
| 15 | Erm , right that gets us to the er performance analysis , and er graphs . |
| 16 | The latter are shapes so memorable that knowing they exist matters more than actually seeing them . |
| 17 | EXCEPT the architect build the house they labour in vain that build it . |
| 18 | If their vanity in pursuit of the prize should carry them away , they will be suitably chastised in the words of Psalm 124 : ‘ Except the Lord shall build the house , they labour in vain that build it . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |
| 20 | Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years . |
| 21 | The composite that reached us was not attractive : to wear gloves , to redecorate and to pursue vicious joyless affairs under false names in highway motels . |
| 22 | What happens is that although it does tend to decay it builds a crust on the outside that stops it eroding . |
| 23 | Another , Sphecodes , battles its way into a colony , killing any individual that opposes it . |
| 24 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 25 | He employed the wry , self-deprecation that made him a refreshing presence on the campaign trail . |
| 26 | Jenna was surprised how gloomy that made her feel . |
| 27 | what Chodorow retains of the psychical that makes it impossible for her to consider social relations in any but the most simplistic way . |
| 28 | But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence . |
| 29 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 30 | Is it my influence with Artai that troubles you ? ’ |