Example sentences of "word that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost as frightening was the bellow of Buddie 's voice when it grew huge and powerful with anger , and the shouted words that struck like blows to make Frankie flinch and tremble . |
| 2 | This tree consists only of words that partake in compounds and at the leaf nodes are the indices relating to the disk address of the lexical information . |
| 3 | She paused again , struggling for words to convey the innocence and intimacy of that friendship , words that had to be like a spider 's web , strong yet delicate , if she was to communicate to Mark 's coarse masculine intelligence some inkling of what that friendship had meant to her and Hilda . |
| 4 | And the words that went with it said that ‘ after enjoying a leisurely breakfast the eagle soared high over the park and set course north , towards Scotland , where golden eagles come from . |
| 5 | It is best to classify this as a prefix-suffix error : any corrective teaching should focus the children 's attention on the effect of -ing on words that end in -e . |
| 6 | There are lots of words that end in s , and you do n't need to use an apostrophe on them unless it 's an owner . |
| 7 | I now wish to look at some Chewong words that pertain to inner states and relate these to ideas of what it means to be human . |
| 8 | Most of the words that go into New Scientist each week first appear on manual typewriters at an office in London 's West End . |
| 9 | ‘ Unnatural , distasteful — all words that apply to value judgments , would n't you say ? ’ |
| 10 | Those were the words that stuck in Dauntless 's brain . |
| 11 | But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips . |
| 12 | Then he turned to his wife and addressed her in words that cut like a knife . |
| 13 | She bit Doyle 's fingers and jerked her mouth free of them , shouting the words that came into her head . |
| 14 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 15 | She realised she was n't even thinking about the words that came from her mouth . |
| 16 | Although the computer has a hyphenation dictionary ( it knows how to split words that come at the end of a line ) , a skilled composer can usually do a better job . |
| 17 | Using all the words that come to you spontaneously and in sequence " spray " your information ( names , facts , concepts ) , however irrelevant or bizarre , along lines that run outwards from your central idea . |
| 18 | First of all , I want you to write down , the first words that come into your mind , the first say half a dozen words that come into your mind when you think about stress . |
| 19 | First of all , I want you to write down , the first words that come into your mind , the first say half a dozen words that come into your mind when you think about stress . |
| 20 | The other is the words that come from the Pastor as he opens the bible to read . |
| 21 | I if I remember correctly those are words that led to the death of a very distinguished explorer . |
| 22 | There are a variety of exercises to check understanding at the back of each book and all the readers contain a picture dictionary , illustrating the words that appear in the stories . |
| 23 | He heard himself saying it was surely the thought that counted , and was astonished at the banal words that hurtled from his mouth . |
| 24 | A blistering July day , her thick woollen underwear sodden with perspiration under the hot black habit , a throbbing headache , Hilda more insistent than ever ; a scene in the playground , only a few words exchanged because other girls were watching , but a few words that shrieked under the stress of the emotion that they bore ; an impatient phrase , more cutting than she had intended ; Hilda turning away–nth a passionate sob , running , running … |
| 25 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 26 | Now , that loving counted for nothing and all the sweet promises they had made were empty words that floated like echoes in a great grey void . |
| 27 | You may omit from this count words that begin with a capital letter , words that are long because they are hyphenated and verbs whose third syllable is " -ed " or " -es . " |
| 28 | Since there are no long words that begin in this way , the short word I , , is retrieved from the buffer and stored on the word graph ( Fig 7.5.2 ) . |
| 29 | Words that have in the last fifteen years or so , become synonymous with the name of Hood Yacht Systems . |
| 30 | You may feel that an idea of this sort is what will give you the most charge to get through the sixty , seventy or eighty thousand words that lie between you and a finished manuscript , let alone the weeks of researching that may be necessary and the dense hours of hard thinking . |