Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] that [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |
| 4 | it 's , or , or my driver 's capability that worry me |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not only Jean-Claude 's selfishness that struck me , but my collusion in it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's Jon 's drums that drag me in initially — precise , soft-stick , cymbal-heavy , to-the-letter and oddly hypnotic . |
| 10 | Erm shit that reminds me I 've got to write a letter . |
| 11 | But it was your idea of erm entrances that got me a bit scared . |
| 12 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |