Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make a list of words that describe how you think Brian Smart would feel about coming to school each day . |
| 2 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 3 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 4 | Telling stories that describe how you had a similar experience fall into the same camp . |
| 5 | Even as his broken body had followed its spirit into the night woods , there had been something about him : his fingers flexed just so , as if signalling to her ; a frown on his face , as if he was struggling to turn his eyes to the woman by the fire ; a sparkle in those eyes , the dead eyes , the tears that said how he longed to stay . |