Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various fusion machines that a had been built were producing neutrons-supposedly a sign that fusion was taking place but the neutrons had nothing to do with thermonuclear reactions . |
| 2 | He faced a prison sentence , and in his eagerness to keep his client out of prison , defending QC Mr Christmas Humphreys claimed that Trevor had been overworking and was drinking ‘ to give him the energy to carry on a task that was almost more than he could bear ’ . |
| 3 | Better decisions result when the task and maintenance leadership roles are filled in a way that leads to coordination , thus overcoming the slowness , tangential discussion , loss of focus and other inefficiencies of groups . |
| 4 | The rain had darkened his brown hair , and rivulets of water dripped down a face that looked to be carved from teak . |
| 5 | The firelight flickered over a face that was grim as stone . |
| 6 | Since taking over as Brazil 's manager on 6 January , Sebastiano Lazaroni has attempted to pull off a transformation that has hitherto seemed impossible in Brazilian football . |
| 7 | Constanze 's guardian accordingly drew up a document that Mozart was required to sign , promising to marry her within three years , or else pay a large sum as compensation . |
| 8 | Tired as they were , they stumbled through the dark hours , picking themselves up when they fell , keeping up a pace that left no time for thought or speech . |
| 9 | ‘ So you write to your family , keeping up a pretence that all is well with your world ? |
| 10 | I took sips of my wine and carried on with the supper , and at one point I went across to the bookcase and idly picked up a petal that was lying there . |
| 11 | What Teller hopes the West will do will be to develop its inter-dependence , eradicate secrecy between its constituent parts so the defence and the knowledge thereto is shared , and behind its nuclear shield build up a society that will prove the point about the superiority of its system . |
| 12 | They build up a taxonomy that relies on whether the preferences of the electorate are seen as fixed or varying and whether government capability is seen as strategic or responsive . |
| 13 | If they send out a document that weighs a kilo for tapes and they sent that one , they 're losing twenty |
| 14 | AMID a confusion of conflicting reports , Russia yesterday denied one of its planes had carried out a raid that killed one man and wounded eight people in Sukhumi , capital of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia . |
| 15 | Usually , problems that coincide with retirement can be fairly simply overcome by willingness to discuss them frankly and to work out a solution that suits both partners . |
| 16 | try to work out a pattern that is varied and fun |
| 17 | Then she let out a scream that seemed to lift her right up into the air and she dropped the plate with a crash and a splash onto the floor . |
| 18 | Mr Wormwood let out a yell that rattled the window-panes . |
| 19 | Downstairs Clytemnestra let out a howl that ended in a series of urgent yelps . |
| 20 | Then she let out a cry that brought most of the searching Brownies back at top speed to the beech . |
| 21 | And Jay was pacing her attic , bars tightening and cracking around a heart that would not stop hurting ; she could not lay her body down though it screamed for rest and knots of fury made her neck and shoulders a steely hunch like a vulture . |
| 22 | Beneath the castle he proposes to open a bay in the woods and build there a cottage that ‘ will give an air of cheerfulness and inhabitancy to the scene which would without it be too sombre , because the castle tho ’ perfectly in character with the solemn dignity of the surrounding woods , increases rather than relieves the apparent solitude ’ . |
| 23 | She wiped away a tear that had crept unnoticed on to her cheek . |
| 24 | He suggested that the jury should bring in a decision that would mean that ‘ in future , parents and doctors could make decisions on this awful problem without unidentified informers rushing off to the police . ’ |
| 25 | Barnes has fired up a powerful B side and told them : ‘ We are going to set down a performance that will make the selectors take notice . |
| 26 | I suggest that he and his friends in Ealing , North — which he has represented so well for so many years — put together a festival that would be of interest to young people , and also to the important artists whom he mentioned . |
| 27 | I am standing with Joe , a round the world Australian , beneath eucalyptus trees , looking over a landscape that can be read like a Breughel . |
| 28 | Cos if the steamer only came once a week that would n't have been enough . |
| 29 | Whatever , it was there , waiting , waiting , waiting — for one ingredient to complete it , to set off a reaction that might never stop . |
| 30 | Then , picking up a rifle that had been give to me by the French Commandos , I joined the others , lining up in the darkness at the edge of the wood preparing to move off . |