Example sentences of "that [art] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her gold hair lay round her like a mantle , but where its strands crossed her face they stirred a little with her breathing , so that the tailor knew she was alive . |
| 2 | I thought , in my anxious state , that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there . |
| 3 | Lorton was relieved that the clutch gave him no trouble : the wound in his leg had been designed to scare him , not to incapacitate him . |
| 4 | In a clear reference to the claim that the Queen forced her to undertake the visit he shouted : ‘ Are you really happy to be here , ma'am ? ’ |
| 5 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 6 | It was once thought that the birds used it as though sucking up a drink through a straw . |
| 7 | The defendant , who paid £10 per deal , said that the amphetamine put him on a high for an hour and that he used to escape pressures and worries . |
| 8 | LEVELS OF radioactive dust found in a home near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria were so high that the owners felt they had to move their two young sons to safety immediately , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 9 | The Report concluded with the comment that the Committee felt it was not prepared to express any opinions about the reconstruction of the War Department . |
| 10 | I regret that the committee decided it would not approve funding as detailed in your application . |
| 11 | When calico printing moved from London to Lancashire in the 1780s , a ready-made journeymen 's union went with it , whose members were so assured of their status and craft autonomy that the employers christened them " gentlemen journeymen " . |
| 12 | She knew that the Princesse suspected her of having taken Andrzej as a lover , but that only made it all the more plausible . |
| 13 | When next affronted by speculative brick houses aggrandised by wrongly scaled and detailed plastic ‘ classical ’ columns , you might ruminate that the Encyclopaedists got it right . |
| 14 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 15 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 16 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
| 17 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 18 | Later Mr Unsworth said that the princess told him : ‘ Thank you very much , Ted , for saying those things . ’ |
| 19 | It was then that the thought struck her . |
| 20 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 21 | She remembered what he had said about steering clear of married women , and she decided that they probably were n't , not that the thought gave her any pleasure . |
| 22 | A group of young teenage girls once admitted to me that although they frequently complained because their parents insisted that they should be home by a certain time , they recognized that the deadline gave them a useful excuse for not getting out of their depth . |
| 23 | He said publicity surrounding the officers had snowballed so that the public perceived them as guilty . |
| 24 | A contract is a bargain and the bargain was that the Company made her the promise in the advertisement and she in return bought one of their smoke balls from a retailer . |
| 25 | Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value . |
| 26 | I knew your address , and I knew that the King asked you to find the photograph . |
| 27 | And now I 'm certain that the gods sent you . |
| 28 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 29 | but , I did hear something , I do n't know whether it 's true , that the doctors took him off the |
| 30 | The cook stood up on the forward side , so that the shed protected him when there was a favourable wind . |