Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ?
2 After a while when the sickness had subsided , she opened the door and was about to creep cautiously away , when she heard her father speak some words that halted her : ‘ Who 's to blame for the club nights , I ask you ? ’ he was saying .
3 I will find some shops that suit me . ’
4 I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management .
5 ‘ But there are some things that disturb me .
6 And what we in fact the the reason we tell people everything on the phone Ron is that there are some things that pen I did have one here ,
7 All the actors are local people but the company would n't allow anyone from the works was to take part … she says , It was very disappointing initially but in some ways that makes it more important that we should go ahead with the project .
8 Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth .
9 and then finding someway what they 've said on there is try to make some sentences that use it so that you can remember what it looks like .
10 A very good example on sort of the clues some behaviours that make us say yeah it 's aggressive , passive , assertive .
11 There are a few men that do it
12 Of the very few banners that mentioned it , one from Moscow University called pointedly for ‘ a faster rate of democratisation of the party ’ .
13 And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching .
14 As we shall see in more detail in the next chapter , there are many features of such conditions that make them quite obviously inimical to the creative act .
15 The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two .
16 It 's the interchangeableness of this , these words that makes it difficult to understand
17 Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him .
18 So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me .
19 Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol .
20 But again it 's , it 's another one of these things that makes it really complicated .
21 ‘ It 's these things that do it . ’
22 There 's summat about these lights that remind me of Annie — I du n no what it is .
23 Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction .
24 It 's these tests that worry me .
25 And that 's all these are in Tony 's hou I 'm just trying to show them Tony 's house first you see cos it 's it 's all these tiles that fascinate me .
26 The fierce public rivalry between IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp begins to look like the posturing of all-in wrestlers that do it all for show : according to Computer Reseller News , IBM is quietly working with the Redmond dominator to put Windows NT up on the PowerPC RISC .
27 I would like to suggest that all activities that take us outside the practical business of living ( sacred worship , carnivals , listening to music and reading a novel , etc. , etc. ) can be seen as either subsumed under play or as extensions of it .
28 We shall , of course , send a copy of our final report to all institutions that return us a completed questionnaire .
29 This is an adaptation to survive predation from the many animals that hunt them — not least man for the cooking pot !
30 to maximize commitment to the objectives of the enterprise employees must be told rapidly about all matters that affect them directly , and as soon as possible about matters that affect them less directly .
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