Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 2 | Being tight-fisted individuals we by-passed the fee-paying nature trail through the woods and crossed the beck to join a Green Lane that led pleasantly back to Clapham and the end of a fine day 's trek through Yorkshire 's classic karst and pavement country . |
| 3 | She went to the window , that window , ’ and he pointed to the french windows that led out on to the terrace . |
| 4 | Alexander took her hand and led her to the door that led out on to the path that wound down towards the beach . |
| 5 | ‘ It had to be Windsor , too — not Balmoral or Sandringham but the castle that goes right back to the Normans — and the Queen 's favourite chapel , stripped to a skeleton of its former self . |
| 6 | ‘ All I hope is we are the side that goes up along with them . ’ |
| 7 | Do you have a formal qualification in electronics , or was it an interest that got slightly out of hand ? |
| 8 | ‘ When I wrote it , ’ he remembers , staring at the floor like a child admitting to shoplifting , ‘ I was in the middle of a really , really serious obsession that got completely out of hand . |
| 9 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 10 | His teasing request , ‘ Will you do this for me ? ’ , cues in a series of sexual variations ; games in earnest that grow increasingly out of hand . |
| 11 | Ramblin' Jeff hooks you in with the opening ‘ Goin' Down ’ , a cover of a Don Nix song that lurches drunkenly out of the speakers and sets the mood for the rest of the record . |
| 12 | There were flat fish , silvered , aldermanic ; slim , darting fish ; palindromic fish that peered foully out of crevices ; minute poised fish of electric blue , fluttering red-and-black fish , slinking azure-and-green fish . |
| 13 | And nowhere was that place just out of reach |
| 14 | Such round , smooth shapes are the perfect foil to the railway sleepers that are used as informal steps down to the lowest level of all , a curved brick paved sitting area that looks back up towards the house . |
| 15 | Even on a short section you can see many of the different birds which colonise nearby Ramsey , Skikholm and Skomer islands , and perhaps some of the gannets that breed further out on Grassholm . |
| 16 | He was small and agile , bow-legged and with a rubbery face that squirmed in on to his toothless gums as he chewed . |
| 17 | She had ample power to stem the tide that ebbed enthusiastically out past the Needles , and would not be blown off course by the north-easterly wind . |
| 18 | There was something else that came up out of the minutes . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the discovery that young , vivacious , Tania Sheppey was about to enter motherhood , courtesy of centre-half Brian Rawlings , brought about a family rivalry that spilled over on to the football pitch , notably during a League game against Thornham Bridge . |
| 20 | Macaulay found The Prelude ‘ to the last degree Jacobinical , indeed Socialist ’ : the linking of words that look far back into the past and equally far forward into the future shows that from the point of view of the Whig benches at any rate , Wordsworth 's politics were lamentably consistent . |
| 21 | Not totally sure she actually wanted to illuminate what she already knew she was going to find , she snapped down the switch and stared disagreeably at the glistening drops that plopped relentlessly on to the dresser . |
| 22 | There is no enjoyment in climbing Whernside in mist or rain but if overtaken by bad weather , a perfect lifeline to safety is provided by a five-mile ridge wall that leads infallibly back to the environs of Ingleton . |
| 23 | But it was me that skipped sideways on to the cobbles . |
| 24 | Looking like huge , animated pine-cones , these unusual animals are covered in large , overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long , prehensile tail . |
| 25 | Yes , it 's true , you 're holding the final chapter in a long-running saga that began way back in 1985 . |
| 26 | It leaves precious few clues for anyone in search of lines that trace directly back to Gedge 's own life . |
| 27 | The burger bar is doing a sizzling trade and Pacitto 's , dear old Pacitto 's the best ice cream you can buy for my money has a queue that stretches halfway back to Middlesbrough . |
| 28 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 29 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 30 | I fingered a few and then picked out a shiny foil bag that folded neatly down into a tiny pack . |