Example sentences of "that [vb past] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 2 | But then she realized that laid out before her was a flat surface . |
| 3 | The smack has suppressed the wetting behaviour but has done so by suppressing one of the antecedents that led up to it , namely , an approach by Katy to her father . |
| 4 | And some of the things that led up to it erm , yo you had like a form of spring cleaning yo you know |
| 5 | It simply means that that particular argument that led up to it is no argument at all . |
| 6 | You were with her in the days and weeks that led up to it . |
| 7 | It was my wee , my wee granddaughter that got through to him . |
| 8 | Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I |
| 9 | Unable to restrain the anger that welled up within him , Richmann swung his cut-down Winchester round and , with an animal roar , blew the man 's head open like a dropped melon . |
| 10 | But unlike her — and the exact shape of her body was difficult to determine because of her roomy salwar kamiz — Changez had a stomach that rode out before him , with a dark-red stringy knitted jumper stretched over it . |
| 11 | Er , there is a a little orange leaflet which has been placed on the seats during the day that many of you , I hope , already have er , for anyone who has n't may I perhaps place these on the front table , there 's a the , there 's another supply over there and , could I please ask that some responsible representative from each district would please take a few more of these away with you so that they are distributed in district meetings in the near future , and attention drawn to them there er , if there are not enough copies er , then I 'm sure the provincial office on receiving a , a request from you will make sure there 's more that passed on to you . |
| 12 | Charity stared , stunned , at the open , upside-down jewellery box on her bathroom floor , and at the necklace that winked up at her , looking like a dozen teardrops strung together on a web of silver . |
| 13 | The leaden feeling that weighed heavily on me as Jean-Claude rode into Paris did not lift when we fetched up at the house in the rue Victorie . |
| 14 | erm I 'd we we have a number of suggestions er a gentleman over there about the er body building was that reported back to you for a start and did you discuss this ? erm you know I I really thought it sort of modern management techniques if there applied here like team working net working it 's it this way you could actually begin to perform as the committee at the moment your the shadowy figures in the background . |
| 15 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 16 | Lucy sat on the tiled floor of a shower cubicle in the bathroom of the most expensive-looking hotel suite that she 'd ever seen , hugging her knees , shivering despite the temperature of the water that beat down upon her . |
| 17 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 18 | For a moment Nicholas , too , saw the future as something splendid and bright ; a fertile island , well run and blooming , and owing nothing to all the nations that warred round about it . |
| 19 | There was nothing at all in his touch but kindness and efficiency but she had to bite into her lip to stifle the urge to stroke the dark head that bent close to her and his hands on her skin sent melting sensations through her that utterly drowned out any slight pain from the sharp stones . |
| 20 | The affectionate bond that built up between them did not go unnoticed either by Prince Charles nor Mannakee 's colleagues . |
| 21 | There were a few areas of welcome grassland like the one that rose ahead of him almost as soon as he left the Park behind . |
| 22 | Eachuinn Odhar bowed his head in acknowledgement of the murmur of assent that rose all round him . |
| 23 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 24 | But the uneasy excitement that smouldered deep within her , like a banked-down fire waiting to be stirred into leaping life , was for what might come after . |
| 25 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 26 | But the footsteps that came up beside her were Jasper 's — light and urgent . |
| 27 | The area seemed almost worse than the city he had left , and the metallic noise and traffic hum that came up from it was more formidable . |
| 28 | Miss Abernethie jumped from her chair , scuttled in the direction of the broad flight of steps leading to the road outside , tripped clumsily over Jilly Jonathan 's big crocodile-skin handbag , fell to her feet , scrambled up again , pushed the heavy bag aside with a cry of rage that came oddly from her dumpily respectable self and ran off out of sight . |
| 29 | Hazel and his companions had spent the night doing everything that came unnaturally to them , and this for the first time . |
| 30 | But when I heard Elvis , I could n't , I really could n't , believe the noise that came out of him . |