Example sentences of "the [noun] that have brought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 2 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 3 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 4 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 5 | Their shapes gave off no tremor or threat , more a priestly absorption in the radar of the appetites that had brought them there . |
| 6 | They had co-operated on several criminal cases ; the scoops that had brought her the professional acclaim she revelled in . |
| 7 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 8 | Trust the powers that have brought you this chance , trust your strength , trust in your love of Minch and your memory of all of us . |
| 9 | The commission that had brought us to Préfleur was for music to a libretto by M. Xavier Frontenac . |
| 10 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 11 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 12 | The accidents that had brought me back into the past were real enough . |
| 13 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 14 | It was the Mataura that had brought them from Scotland , and it had to be a good omen . |
| 15 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 16 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 17 | Whether it was chance or the covert workings of the Unbeheld that had brought them together this way , there was surely significance in their reunion . |
| 18 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 19 | The pain that had brought him sharply back to consciousness seared violently through his stomach . |
| 20 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |