Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 3 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 4 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |
| 5 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
| 6 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 7 | it 's , or , or my driver 's capability that worry me |
| 8 | The curvature and stress-energy tensors , and Einstein 's equation that links them , will be discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 9 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm — fond of Travis — very fond , ’ she stated , then caught the dangerous glint in her employer 's eye that assured her that her prevarication was n't going down too well . |
| 11 | It was Mr Banzer 's wrath that made him go into exile in Argentina . |
| 12 | Warhurst was allowed home from hospital yesterday after the clash with Spora 's keeper that knocked him out and almost cost him his life . |
| 13 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 14 | The tale is in fact carefully tied in as the Shipman 's Tale at the beginning of fragment VII , with an endlink that binds it to the Prioress 's Tale that follows it . |
| 15 | But as she led the way to her car — Harriet had used up some of her precious reserves of petrol for this expedition — there was something about her daughter 's manner that disturbed her . |
| 16 | It 's another side to The Coal Porters ' sound and Griffin 's songwriting that shows they have more than one ace hidden up their sleeves . |
| 17 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 18 | The grooms at his home in Princes Risborough , believe it was Sefton 's spirit that pulled him through . |
| 19 | It was not only Jean-Claude 's selfishness that struck me , but my collusion in it . |
| 20 | The main external events in Nietzsche 's life that concern us here are easily summarized . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been suggested to me that there was some episode in Nona 's life that disturbed her , greatly disturbed her . |
| 22 | It was not the ever-present guard or the commandant 's threats that made them work so devotedly . |
| 23 | Every day this week you can collect pictures of the Grand Prix victories that made him king . |
| 24 | What is it about Jonah 's escapade that transfixes us ? |
| 25 | And the navigator replied in his normal Brummie voice : " Oh no , he is in the aircraft over there , " and the odd thing was that the flak left us and clobbered an aircraft near us , It was the dead-ringer of God 's voice that unnerved me , I put a stop to this impersonation of the Lord and , sadly . |
| 26 | But there was something about Doyle 's voice that made it impossible to interrupt . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was something in the dowager-duchess 's voice that caused it , but Joan to her own dismay burst into tears . |
| 28 | For it was Ven 's voice that answered her ! |
| 29 | So it was n't the sexual aspect of Helena 's affair that interested him but its romantic side . |
| 30 | think of an addition to the other person 's idea that improves it and overcomes the snag you have identified . |