Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was gone ; and Bigwig 's fur was blowing in the whack of wind that followed it down the hedges . |
| 2 | Then , without previous movement or sound , only with a sudden gush of closed and graveyard air , the rotten surface above buckled and dimpled , lolling in sagging bubbles of turf , and sending its under-levels of soil cascading down on top of the ancient arc of bricks that upheld it . |
| 3 | ‘ The price of a common press was only about one-tenth of the cost of the 1,000 kg of type that kept it occupied in a busy shop … so that the master could afford to own more presses than he would normally need . ’ |
| 4 | In the dark office the human awoke , mooed for a while , and tried to jerk free of the cobweb of wires that held it down . |
| 5 | She 'd read something in the book of proverbs that summed it up perfectly . |
| 6 | Many contemporary and subsequent critics have emphasized the extent to which The Big Parade ( 1925 ) is essentially a piece of romantic escapism but it was the film 's thoroughly sensible and balanced attitude towards war that earned it respect from discriminating critics in the 1920s . |
| 7 | They could hear the rasp of his breath as he tossed his head against the cloud of flies that haloed it . |
| 8 | " Liberal " in the broad sense , including most of the scientists , thinkers and poets of the day , tended to be linked in people 's minds with the excesses of the French Revolution and the nearly 30 years of war that followed it . |
| 9 | But what was it about the concept of citizenship that made it so popular in political discussion and why were ‘ boy labour ’ reformers so eager to introduce working-class adolescents to its supposed virtues ? |
| 10 | As always , the pleasure was heightened by the sense of guilt that accompanied it . |
| 11 | The horizon was still invisible , but above the line of mist that hid it the sky was clear , with the promise of a lovely evening . |
| 12 | In a way , I think it was a kind of pride that did it . |
| 13 | It compelled him to look closer ; to feel the smooth , damp surface ; to grasp the ring of iron that held it prisoner ; to look into the black space behind it . |
| 14 | He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it . |
| 15 | They were another set of people that had it . |
| 16 | The Grosvenor opened its doors in the 1920s as a focal point for preachers , and it was the sound of music that made it famous . |
| 17 | By the mid-fourth century the patriarchal line of Church leadership began to fuse with a male construction of celibacy that defined it both as avoidance of contact with women as the source of sin and as a source of power over inferior married people . |
| 18 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 19 | The house of Baskerville , the eminent Birmingham printer , was sold in 1788 and the seven acres of land that surrounded it were advertised as ‘ a very desirable spot to build upon ’ . |
| 20 | She imagined she could hear it at her back , behind the house and the soft green swell of land that shielded it , could hear the breaking thud of the winter waves on the shore she had not yet seen . |
| 21 | And then in the second half when there were chances at both ends … it was Villa 's coolness … experience … little bit of sparkle that won it … with Dalian Atkinson hitting the winner … 2-1 to the Villa … |
| 22 | The county was overrun with underwood that made it impervious to the traveller . |
| 23 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 24 | ‘ If an assassin were to dare to enter my kitchen , ’ Auguste announced in tones that made it clear that no villain would have the temerity , ‘ do you not think that poison would be his chosen means , rather than an arsenal of rifles hidden in a kitchen range ? ’ |
| 25 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 26 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 27 | At the centre of Kant 's disc was the Sun , and the planets were assembled from material that surrounded it . |
| 28 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 29 | The young , working-class fan had inherited the tradition without some of the controls on behaviour that accompanied it ( ibid.:51–2 ) . |