Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 2 | The 12 hours that shook us all |
| 3 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 4 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 5 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 6 | He has found out one thing in the ten years that separate them , if nothing else ; that now is always better than then . |
| 7 | A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well . |
| 8 | The spec was not solely Sun 's work , as the piece implied , nor ‘ rubberstamped ’ by the twelve companies that wrote it . |
| 9 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 10 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 11 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 12 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 13 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |
| 14 | Alcohol and the smell of cauliflowers were the only two things that worried her . |
| 15 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 16 | ‘ The two monsters that brought me here , ’ I answered . |
| 17 | Well that was the only two railways that affected us . |
| 18 | The chariot is itemised as wheels , car , people standing in car ; but the two horses that draw it are allowed to overlap , so shown as one body with two necks and heads and eight legs . |
| 19 | And what better community could you get than in Spring Street , he would ask , for had n't it a shop that supplied food , and two others that fitted you out from top to bottom ? |
| 20 | and er , we have two boys that do it with us as well and when they come out to youth clubs with us the girls and the boys that we go and speak to love having a male there |
| 21 | and there were two women that had it done , that big one had , had it done four times |
| 22 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |