Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 2 | Not even a Guy-Fawkes bonfire that scorches you head to toe with a hot and lavish lick and leaves your back frosted and tingling . |
| 3 | His refuge for the hunger strike will be the Swindon pub that pays him to lecture to punters on Plato . |
| 4 | Of course , having always possessed an interest in astrology , she knew that it was her Arien opposition that made her react so whenever she was under threat . |
| 5 | Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money . |
| 6 | Helping a Third World child had been in the back of their minds for some time , but it was an ActionAid advertisement in their Sunday paper that spurred them into action . |
| 7 | There 's a landlord with a broken nose in Brighton , and a DHSS hostel that kicked me out . |
| 8 | If the doctor helped Mr Mansur , he could be charged under a new Michigan law that makes it a crime to assist a person to commit suicide . |
| 9 | Clenching her teeth she pulled the door behind her , heard the sharp click of the Yale lock that shut her out . |
| 10 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 11 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
| 12 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 13 | They remember , acutely , the blank cheque that Lyndon Johnson got from Congress in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution that allowed him to fight in Vietnam . |
| 14 | It was the Kent countryside that inspired him and which he wanted to be a part of . |
| 15 | It was probably the affairs of the East India trade that propelled him into politics ; with the ‘ old ’ East India company still in existence , many members of the ‘ new ’ company sought election to Parliament to protect the company 's interests . |
| 16 | I have nothing against yesterday 's guitar heroes , indeed it was the Iommi article that caused me to buy your magazine again , but whoever it was in your office who opened up a copy of NME and stuck a pin in it should be encouraged to do so again . |