Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the confines of the car the atmosphere pulsed to the same demented rhythm that thrummed in her veins . |
| 2 | The axeman wore the first beard of a boy and had big ears that stuck through his hair . |
| 3 | Will he further assure the House that the same strict safeguards and enforcement of rules on the protection and welfare of horses and other animals that apply in our country will apply in the EC area ? |
| 4 | These latter ( Ornithischians ) include some animals that walked on their hind legs like Tyrannosaurus , but with vegetarian habits ( Iguanodon , the first dinosaur to be discovered ) ; the group also includes various types of vegetarian armoured and plated dinosaurs , often shown in pitched battle with their carnivorous contemporaries . |
| 5 | All you need to do is fill in the registration card that comes with your software or peripheral and pop it in the post box . |
| 6 | She began to scream , high , sharp screams that tore at her chest and hurt her throat . |
| 7 | And I know many older women who have found the kind of partnership that adds to their life rather than subtracts from it . |
| 8 | It was probably this inability to recognize defeat that led to his continuing attacks on the Somme and to the prolonged bloodbath at Passchendaele . |
| 9 | And as she pressed against him and felt his passion stirring , and saw the depth of emotion that shone from his eyes , Shiona knew beyond a doubt that his promise was true . |
| 10 | Profit-orientated : private sector organizations that have as their primary objective the pursuit of profit . |
| 11 | However , it was not only household cutlery that fell under his all-powerful , all-twisting spell . |
| 12 | And every time I told him I could n't hear voices , you should have seen the look of disappointment that came into his face . |
| 13 | Sweetheart appeared oblivious to their stares , but Frankie knew she was aware of all the eyes that turned in her direction as she sat with her legs crossed and her head lifted proudly . |
| 14 | Taxes form the lion 's share of the revenue that pays for our publicly provided welfare services . |
| 15 | No movie that ran in his head had ever worked out as this one did . |
| 16 | It would soothe away the worries that ached in his head , even on this hazy gold morning of early September , with a fine harvest coming and plenty of work for the young men in the new town . |
| 17 | The Autocracy in Russia , following 1905 , increasingly faced new challenges and a growing opposition that lead to its eventual downfall . |
| 18 | And it was that habit of speaking his mind that led to his downfall . |
| 19 | Kindly go through the mail that remains in your hand . ’ |
| 20 | There was no sign , other than the winking of a small green light , that the aircraft that reverted to his control . |
| 21 | They say that the court should appoint or direct the appointment of an amicus curiae to assist the court when , as here , there is a serious problem of locus standi in view of the confusion that exists in their native Somalia . |
| 22 | The chief pharmacist , for example , has no control over the number of prescriptions that come into his department . |
| 23 | Not in a career sense , because the leaden weight that lay on her heart told her that his career was now Loxford with Quindale , Church End , New End and Snead until relieved by the trumpets of Doomsday , but as a person . |
| 24 | When the Daily Telegraph thundered on to his front doormat , he could get up and do the crossword over the pot of tea that served as his breakfast . |
| 25 | All the mitochondria in you are descended from the small population of mitochondria that travelled from your mother in her egg . |
| 26 | It was Cantona 's exclusion by Leeds against Arsenal that led to his shock transfer last week . |
| 27 | She surveyed his long-limbed body with an attempt at cool detachment , her gaze flickering over the dark denims that moulded his strong thighs , and the jade sweater that clung to his hard male chest . |
| 28 | He is able to be painfully honest ( and funny ) about a childhood encounter with a baby raper and the misogyny that resulted from his disastrous teenage sex life — I mean , this guy would be a superb candidate for Radio 4 's In The Psychiatrist 's Chair . |
| 29 | If ruthlessly destroying a hundred years of tradition , not to mention a massive loss of capital , is ‘ pioneering ’ , than it must surely rank with the pioneering attempts of Stalin in purging Soviet libraries of all books that departed from his orthodoxy . |
| 30 | Of all the eidetic images that remain from my childhood , frozen with crude representational accuracy , this is the most vivid . |