Example sentences of "of [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went . |
| 2 | Depression now wrapped itself about her , making concentration difficult , while the thought of Silas holding Doreen in his arms brought a sudden flare of honesty that caused her to admit she was jealous . |
| 3 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 4 | The web of skin that unites their toes has become greatly enlarged so that each foot is , in effect , a small parachute . |
| 5 | Zitney fixed her with the kind of look that made her feel electric all over . |
| 6 | This is the result of my experience and your money and a touch of genius that follows me whatever I do . |
| 7 | Or , rather , a lion — there was something about those gold-brown eyes and swept-back mane of hair that made her think of the King of Beasts , dressed up in the trappings of civilisation . |
| 8 | The tracker , Tagan , took point , the rain beginning to mist his beard and the black mat of hair that covered his forehead , and they followed on , Fife and Drum looking wet and unenthusiastic already . |
| 9 | There was a thread of anger in the question , but Fran ignored it , just as she forced herself to ignore the sudden surge of hope that filled her heart . |
| 10 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
| 11 | Medicare and Medicaid have a plethora of policies that escalate their own costs . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher instantly fired back , saying : ‘ the kind of policies that restore our fortune and reputation in the world ’ . |
| 13 | Grice himself might assimilate apine dance to the category of phenomena that have what he called natural meaning as opposed to the non-natural meaning of expressions of natural language . |
| 14 | For our conclusions about the group would then be in every way prior to any conclusions about individuals ; we would have relied on principles of responsibility that draw their sense from a practice or way of thinking to which the personification is indispensable . |
| 15 | Reducing the amount of phosphates that find their way into lakes and rivers may help , although far more serious problems are caused by effluents from factories , sewage works and some badly-managed farms . |
| 16 | For instance , Alex was shown pairs of objects that had nothing in common and asked ‘ What 's the same ? ’ |
| 17 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 18 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 19 | In these cases the plaintiff is aware of the risk but does not consent to the act of negligence that causes his injury . |
| 20 | She felt sick , but was relieved to feel something : the weight of the food in her stomach did something to counteract the sense of unreality that afflicted her . |
| 21 | The woman was slim , dark , and well made , with an air of reserve that made one take her seriously . |
| 22 | For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors . |
| 23 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 24 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 25 | It is part of the accumulated folk wisdom of gay male subcultures that the homosexuality of an individual will reveal itself primarily through matters of taste — not good or bad taste but particular taste , a fondness for certain cultural artefacts above others , a set of preferences that proclaim one 's sexual affiliations as clearly as any sloganeering T-shirt . |
| 26 | If we carefully analyse the frequencies contained within speech it is possible to devise a system of rules that allows us to create any given sound from its basic frequencies . |
| 27 | The lack of judgement that led him to write to Routh in such a vein was Nora 's fault . |
| 28 | His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life . |
| 29 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 30 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |