Example sentences of "[prep] something that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack often thought he was n't quick enough to match Charlie 's easy repartee , but now he had thought of something that would make his friend smile . |
| 2 | You have knowledge of something that might bring danger ? |
| 3 | A sound , the barest whisper of something that might have been a moan , rose in her throat . |
| 4 | She tried to think of something that might interest a defector , but failed . |
| 5 | Well , that , that , that reminds me of something that might cast some light on Jake 's dream . |
| 6 | It is the start of something that could become very big , but only those with mega bucks need apply . |
| 7 | So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard . |
| 8 | Tom Scotland flew 62 ops from Italy with a Pathfinder squadron ( 614 ) ; his autobiography is a story of his search for truth , for something that would enable him to make sense out of all the destruction and chaos that was a part of wartime life . |
| 9 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 10 | ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’ |
| 11 | When choosing the frame for this design I looked for something that would show off the dark red colours of the flowers and also be fairly plain , so as to balance the rather busy design . |
| 12 | In her early days , looking for something that would make her consultancy just that little bit different , she chose to have an all-women agency . |
| 13 | Pascoe was walking through their house , ten years before , going from room to room , first puzzled , then anxious , then searching for something that would explain her absence . |
| 14 | During the interwar years there had been several proposals for something that would go beyond this to involve governments , and in 1938 the idea of a Nordic Council had been proposed by Denmark . |
| 15 | It 's different when a respected UK dealer makes substantiated claims for something that will affect his reputation for better or worse . |
| 16 | He is not making a temporal point about something that must have happened ‘ in the beginning ’ — the first push . |
| 17 | I 'm sure I can come up with something that would simplify things for you . ’ |
| 18 | First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you a reasonably diffused light . |
| 19 | First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you reasonably diffuse light . |
| 20 | ‘ Give me a minute and I 'll come up with something that will turn your face the same colour as your tie ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But we could be dealing with something that could take several generations to come out . ’ |
| 22 | I sang songs to myself , made up stories , got hungry , rolled around in the sand a bit , rubbed a little of it into my eyes and generally tried to psyche myself up into something that might look like a terrible state for a wee boy to be in . |
| 23 | Following an appeal by UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar for a cease-fire over civilian-populated areas , this was accepted by both sides and the secretary-general now sought to widen it into something that would give effect to the Security Council resolutions , call for an end to the fighting altogether . |
| 24 | Naturally God is displeased with the sin in our life , but he has the power to translate even sinful experiences into something that will bring glory to him . |
| 25 | Chapman was interested only in something that would last three hours . |
| 26 | Neither of them could afford to get mixed up in something that might involve the police . |
| 27 | The River Police Headquarters Building was not far from Southwark Bridge , and Redpath felt he 'd better call there to put his problem , before getting involved in something that might turn out not to belong to his division at all . |
| 28 | Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business . |
| 29 | I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end . |
| 30 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |