Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] that [verb] [pron] " 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 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |
| 4 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
| 5 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 6 | it 's , or , or my driver 's capability that worry me |
| 7 | The curvature and stress-energy tensors , and Einstein 's equation that links them , will be discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Had that been a spider 's web that touched her cheek just now ? |
| 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 | In this area , there is a specialization of the tongue 's surface that has nothing to do with taste . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | SIR ROBIN BUTLER has collected a fair number of accolades during his academic and Civil Service career , but none stranger than the stag 's head that decorates his Whitehall office , writes David Millward . |
| 16 | IN A short profile of Sir Robin Butler , Cabinet Secretary , last week , we remarked on the stag 's head that decorates his Whitehall office , adding : ‘ The prized antlers were awarded to Sir Robin after a victory in the Treasury 's golf tournament . |
| 17 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was the title of Kate 's paper that befuddled their senses — The Nightmare of Ramsay Street ; Neighbours and sub-cultural imagination . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But it is lang 's eclecticism that defines her career , and this is likewise the hallmark of many new country performers . |
| 21 | The jury chose to ignore Mr Justice Drake 's advice that to call someone a queer ‘ may not be defamatory ’ and that the matter was ‘ very debatable ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 25 | The grooms at his home in Princes Risborough , believe it was Sefton 's spirit that pulled him through . |
| 26 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 27 | It was not only Jean-Claude 's selfishness that struck me , but my collusion in it . |
| 28 | The main external events in Nietzsche 's life that concern us here are easily summarized . |
| 29 | ‘ It has been suggested to me that there was some episode in Nona 's life that disturbed her , greatly disturbed her . |
| 30 | What is it about Jonah 's escapade that transfixes us ? |